★★★★★
Following the accolades that accompanied the release of his "Slope" b/w "Maximum Busy Muscle" 12" in October, UK tunesmith Joe has returned at an atypically brisk pace, this time with a single for Untold's Hemlock label. "Punters Step Out" is a tightly wound, minimal bass cut with a circus-like synth refrain that leads its percussion into a choppier, dancehall-leaning build-up...
- www.xlr8r.com
2013-12-11
★★★★★
One of the most remarkable things about Joe is how pristine he's been able to keep his discography. The press-shy producer rarely releases music at all, and when he does, it usually feels like some kind of event. Joe is a master at making his machines flex like non-electronic instruments; at the same time, he works with a rigidity that seems more derived from Bohannon or the JB's than his "bass music" contemporaries...
- www.xlr8r.com
2013-10-18
★★★★★
The new album from the R&B singer Joe is named Doubleback: Evolution of R&B, which doesn't make a lot of sense: after all, evolution, the process of moving forward towards new things, seems permanently at odds with the act of doubling back. But Joe doesn't seem troubled with this conflict. It's his new album, so by definition it's the next step in his growth as an artist. And Doubleback comes filled with bits and pieces of soul and funk from the '70s, or '90s interpolations of that '70s sound...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-09-19
★★★★★
Joe | DoubleBack: Evolution of R&B;
Massenburg Media
By Brent Faulkner Advance Review: CD to be Released July 2nd, 2013
Like many of his colleagues, Joe Thomas (simply known as Joe) moved from
a major to an independent label. Although Joe released four albums via
Kedar between 2008 and 2011, the musician's best known work resides
during his Jive Records days, where hits like "Stutter" and "I Wanna
Know" took radio by storm and propelled the singer's career...
- reviews.theurbanmusicscene.com
2013-06-26
★★★★★
He's charismatic, chiseled from dark chocolate, has a voice that melts women into their stilettos (witness his swag in person and take your lady....if you dare) and is versatile enough to deliver cool club bangers and sexy soul songs with street cred and sex appeal. Joe Thomas, as a proven hit-making veteran with almost two decades of steady success ("All The Things {Your Man Won't Do}," "I Wanna Know," "Stutter," "What If A Woman," etc...
- www.soultracks.com
2011-12-01
★★★★★
The name "Joe" has always conjured up a comfortable, if not outright characterless, image: "Joe Blow," "average Joe," "Joe Sixpack" and even "cup of Joe." And after a dozen-plus hits ("I Wanna Know," "More & More," "Don't Wanna Be a Player," "All the Things {Your Man Won't Do}") and over 15 years in the music industry, it would've been quite easy for Joe Thomas to coast on his rep and rely on his chocolatey good looks to keep the checks coming in...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
The newest release from Joe may be titled , Ain't Nothing Like Me, but old and new fans alike will hear that some things about Joe have not changed at all. True the heavier hip-hop flavor of the CD is unusual for the platinum singer/songwriter, but the voice and style so faithfully awaited have returned triumphantly. Making music is what Joe does and now he adds old skool credibility to a new rendition of his faithful love lessons...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Fourteen years into his career, this smooth-toned crooner still hasn'trecorded anything quite as memorable as his sung hook for Big Pun's 1998rap hit "Still Not a Player." His sixth album, Ain't Nothin' Like Me, is similarly most entertaining when New York MCs like Nas ("Get to Know Me") and Papoose("Where You At") drop by for lively guest spots...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
There's a malady affecting R&B; music, in which a song's sexual
content is reduced to its lowest-brow common denominator. If a
track can score a striptease, accompany an MTV spring break
report, or if it commands a woman ? à la Juvenile's hit ? to ''back
that a-- up,'' it's probably so afflicted. This plague isn't so
much offensive as it is boring. Carnality has its place, but
when artists live up to every below-the-booty stereotype, they
become laughably predictable.
Case in point: My Na.....
- ew.com
2009-06-12
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