Moses Boyd

Dark Matter

I've been playing through this album quite a few times since its release, and even through multiple listens I find that the majority of this album fades into the background. It's incredibly well produced, the featured vocals are strong, and the experimental jazz is always a welcome sound from my perspective. Much of the style of this jazz resembles the sound of a modern act like The Comet Is Coming, but perhaps with tracks more readily capable of incorporating guest vocalists.

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Moses Boyd, the young jazz musician, releases his third album here, and what a great musical experience this is.

Sometimes Jazz is almost non-existent, but it is always present, despite being contradictory, but the truth is that in many of the music, jazz does not play the main role, but it never ceases to be important in the consistency of the project.

Here we have elements of hip hop, house, folk, among others, but we always have a melody, or a saxophone to remember jazz.

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Moses Boyd is new artist to me given that I am not the most up to date person on Jazz in general and therefore NU Jazz nevertheless, Dark Matter, is
a decent record but it just not as interesting as other NU jazz record which I enjoy as well and has a few duds in the track listing

Track Review

Stranger Than Fiction 7/10
Hard Food (Interlude) 6.5/10
BTB 7.5/10
Y.O.Y.O 7/10
Shades of You 7.5/10
Dancing in the Dark 7/10
Only You 5.5/10
2 Far Gone 6.5/10
Nommos Descent 5/10
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Somewhere between the concert hall and the dancefloor, Moses Boyd creates a jazz album influenced by the likes of grime, trip hop and electronica.

In my opinion, Boyd puts his best foot forward with the funky and bass-propelled "Stranger Than Fiction", a song that dominates the rest of the tracklist with its slow-burning, emphatic, mighty horns that lead the track from its humble beginnings to its powerful conclusion. It definitely sets the groundwork for an album steeped in ... read more