The Grammy Award-winning outfit's first album in three years, following 2013's Black Radio 2, ArtScience brims not only with musical virtuosity but a genre-twisting playfulness that touches on hip-hop, electro-funk and neo-soul. Unlike previous releases, which dripped with star vocal guests, this album has saxophonist Casey Benjamin and Glasper stepping to the microphone and, occasionally helped by a warped vocoder, crooning about love (or, at least, the frisson of the chase).
• Robert Glasper Experience. ArtScience. Blue Note
• Three stars (out of five)
• Single download: Find You
• For those who like: Stevie Wonder, Prince
- Shane Gilchrist