★★★★★
Brooklyn's headlined a late Sunday night of funk variations at the Alexander on March 1. Following Claire and the Mothership's Lauren Hill-indebted neo-soul lounge, and a Tonye Aganaba duet that sprinkled in some more reggae and hip-hop flavour, McFerrin took the stage with a hurried energy, looking as if he just got off the plane; he walked directly onstage at midnight and went straight to work plugging in his gear...
- exclaim.ca
2015-03-03
★★★★★
Prior to the stagnation brought on by the last thirty years or so, the result of clashing theories on how the music should be treated, jazz was a vital art form that changed with the times, going so far as to be labeled as popular music for a time before becoming the museum piece it has gradually settled into (at least within the broader popular conscience)...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-08-07
★★★★★
Early Riser - the latest release from Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder imprint - is a lush showcase of Taylor Mcferrin's ardour for soul, left-field electronics and free jazz. Not surprising on a Brainfeeder release is the co-existence of melancholia and urgency, manifesting here in seamless tempo shifts and instrumental layering...
- www.theaureview.com
2014-06-18
★★★★★
Bobby McFerrin's 1988 pop hit "Don't Worry, Be Happy" is guaranteed to bring back memories for listeners of a certain age. His son Taylor's debut album for Brainfeeder is unlikely to have the same effect, but it is, in its own oblique way, a curiously nostalgic record. Early Riser recalls '70s LPs by the likes of Herbie Hancock--with whom McFerrin Sr...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2014-06-15
★★★★★
Bobby McFerrin's 1988 pop hit "Don't Worry, Be Happy" is guaranteed to bring back memories for listeners of a certain age. His son Taylor's debut album for Brainfeeder is unlikely to have the same effect, but it is, in its own oblique way, a curiously nostalgic record. Early Riser recalls '70s LPs by the likes of Herbie Hancock--with whom McFerrin Sr...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2014-06-15
★★★★★
The debut full-length from this Brooklyn-based composer/multi-instrumentalist (and son of Bobby McFerrin) is an impressive mix of left-field electronic grooves, cosmic '70s R&B, blunted hip hop and jazz that fits right in with Brainfeeder's adventurous roster of genre blenders, featuring a warm and woozy shape-shifting sound along with some stellar guest vocalists and musicians. 6/12/2014
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- kexp.org
2014-06-14
★★★★★
Superficially, it may scan as a surprise that the electro-auteur and producer Taylor McFerrin is, in fact, the son of Bobby, the one-hit wonder who bequeathed the world the 1988 cod reggae novelty hit "Don't Worry, Be Happy." Yet McFerrin Sr. is also a renowned experimental vocalist, composer and conductor, and on this debut album his progeny exhibits a similar strain of voracious musical curiosity...
- www.wonderingsound.com
2014-06-10
★★★★★
Miranda Lambert, Country's Sophisticated Radical
New Albums by Miranda Lambert, Meshell Ndegeocello and Taylor McFerrin
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On "Platinum," Miranda Lambert shows a wry yet rowdy side.
Credit
Steve Marcus/Reuters
MIRANDA LAMBERT"Platinum" (RCA Nashville)In the past, the country superstar Miranda Lambert has been...
- www.nytimes.com
2014-06-11
★★★★★
Miranda Lambert, Country's Sophisticated Radical
New Albums by Miranda Lambert, Meshell Ndegeocello and Taylor McFerrin
Photo
On "Platinum," Miranda Lambert shows a wry yet rowdy side.
Credit
Steve Marcus/Reuters
MIRANDA LAMBERT"Platinum" (RCA Nashville)In the past, the country superstar Miranda Lambert has been...
- www.nytimes.com
2014-06-14
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