CD review: Robert Glasper Experience

Having already released two albums this year, including the soundtrack for the Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead, Robert Glasper takes an intriguing trip with regular band the Experiment.

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

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