★★★★★
There is no set template in place when it comes to a musical remix: there can be vocals grafted onto a different track, a tempo change or even the addition of new voices like a continuation of the initial version. But even if there isn't a required standard to follow, what makes a remix successful is when it expands a project's range and appeal while staying true to its original essence, which is true for about half of the latest recalibration of Jill Scott's Hidden Beach era catalog, Crates:...
- www.soultracks.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
It's always interesting to see how an artist follows a critically lauded and groundbreaking (not to mention mega-selling) debut. There are three options: eschew its success and take a sharp left turn; repeat with diminishing returns; or develop, take time and create an album that is equal or worthy. With the weight of the plaudits that were heaped on 's 2000 debut, , it would have been easy for her to follow either of the first two options...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
This year's comeback album, The Light Of The Sun, was a timely reminder of what the world had been missing while Scott was busy with her burgeoning acting career. Resultant legal wrangles wit her old label have now resulted in this collection of bits'n'pieces "from the vaults". For her fans, starved of new material while the alternative career took centre-stage, it's an unexpected gift, even if the quality is variable...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2011-11-07
★★★★★
After penning the massive hip-hop hit "You Got Me," performed by the Roots and Erykah Badu, Jill Scott has released her debut album, Who Is Jill Scott? Words & Sound Vol. 1, posing the question and answering it simultaneously. She is first and foremost a poet and most definitely one of the brightest new R&B; talents to emerge in the last few years. Scott is passionately spiritual...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-08-22
★★★★★
Contrary to what fans, publicists and the artists themselves may tell you, divas aren't made----they're born. And while their degree of talent (or even the existence of said 'talent') might be questionable, the traits that distinguish them from the pack are not ambition, audaciousness, a knack for self-promotion and a passion for their purpose that compels anyone in their path to see them and hear them (usually at center-stage)...
- www.soultracks.com
2011-08-22
★★★★★
Just when we thought we knew who Jill Scott was, she deepens her definition: poet, singer, songwriter, sex symbol, queen of R&B.; Scott's new double-disc, Experience: Jill Scott 826+, showcases the singer's command of the stage on 11 live tracks (the last of which was recorded 8/26) and her stunning versatility on a second disc of unreleased studio gems...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-08-22
★★★★★
You know those movies you "once saw on a plane"? I got caught up in Why Did I Get Married? on a flight once - a trainwreck of a film starring Janet Jackson and Jill Scott. That was the last I'd heard of Scott since her 2007 album The Real Thing: Words And Sounds Vol. 3, and The Light of the Sun is the first of her albums outside the Words And Sounds genus...
- www.beat.com.au
2011-08-15
★★★★★
In the years following her sultry, spiritual, and sophisticated debut, Who Is Jill Scott? Words And Sounds Vol. 1, and its equally impressive (though not quite official) follow-up, the double-disc Experience: Jill Scott 826+, the question was no longer who is Jill Scott, but where is Jill Scott? Turns out she was simply taking some time off to enjoy life and love, and her return to the music world, Beautifully Human: Words And Sounds Vol...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-08-08
★★★★★
Jill Scott's extraordinary debut signaled the birth of an artist with bottomless potential, one who could feasibly deliver on that promise again and again, inventively and steadily, over the course of many years and many records. Instead, the woman who once proclaimed, "Complacency you ain't gon' get me, no no no" has slipped into some kind of aural and thematic monotony. The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-08-08
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