★★★★★
On last year's breakthrough Comfort, London house wunderkind Maya Jane Coles proved herself an impressive singer-songwriter. But she remains a DJ first and foremost. Where her superb 2012 volume of DJ-Kicks glimmered nonstop, Coles' new set, for the London superclub Fabric's custom mix series, showcases hard, dark and luxuriant tracks like Dense and Pika's remix of Paul Woolford's 2006 staple "Erotic Discourse" and NT89's bubbling "Purple Garden...
- www.rollingstone.com
2014-05-16
★★★★★
Maya Jane Coles didn't have to change her sound to hit the big time. The big time came to her. Coles' productions, built around sleek drums and attractive melodies, have always had a pop appeal. She's a killer DJ, too, as she proved with 2012's DJ-Kicks. Her personality used to bleed through everything she touched, but that's been less true as of late. Her debut album, Comfort, relied on too heavily on guest vocalists, and now her fabric mix is similarly middling...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2014-05-09
★★★★★
Maya Jane Coles didn't have to change her sound to hit the big time. The big time came to her. Coles' productions, built around sleek drums and attractive melodies, have always had a pop appeal. She's a killer DJ, too, as she proved with 2012's DJ-Kicks. Her personality used to bleed through everything she touched, but that's been less true as of late. Her debut album, Comfort, relied on too heavily on guest vocalists, and now her fabric mix is similarly middling...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2014-05-09
★★★★★
Maya Jane Coles' album "Comfort."
(I/AM//ME Records / July 8, 2013)
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- www.latimes.com
2013-07-10
★★★★★
Over the past few years, Maya Jane Coles has developed one of the highest profiles in house music. The UK-bred producer's bubbling, sensual productions have attracted fans from across the electronic spectrum, and her recent releases have found her branching out even further, occasionally eschewing the dancefloor almost entirely...
- www.xlr8r.com
2013-07-04
★★★★★
British/Japanese producer, remixer and DJ Maya Jane Coles has rightfully garnered steady praise for the last few years of her career. The 25-year-old has been behind a number of high-profile remixing gigs, two BBC Radio 1 Essential Mixes, a DJ Kicks compilation and numerous awards for her DJing and production work - and that's not even touching on her own numerous solo EP releases...
- www.thelineofbestfit.com
2013-07-04
★★★★★
British/Japanese producer, remixer and DJ Maya Jane Coles has rightfully garnered steady praise for the last few years of her career. The 25-year-old has been behind a number of high-profile remixing gigs, two BBC Radio 1 Essential Mixes, a DJ Kicks compilation and numerous awards for her DJing and production work - and that's not even touching on her own numerous solo EP releases...
- thelineofbestfit.com
2013-08-05
★★★★★
Maya Jane Coles' rise through the ranks of UK house was almost meteoric, and it's been hard not to root for her the whole way. Her slinky and low-slung productions have definite commercial viability, but there's also an unusual sense of space in her music. That's not even mentioning her knack for melody, something that's particularly evident when she sings...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2013-07-01
★★★★★
With its gently lilting title-track kicking off this deepest of journeys, Maya Jane Coles propels us into her obsessively quilled house music odyssey. The 25-year-old producer provides us with many guides, with whom we can traverse her expansive vision of club grooves - and it's a roll call that'd have Homer choking on his mead...
- www.clashmusic.com
2013-06-20
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