LEON VYNEHALL Vinilo y CD

Review: A decade ago, Leon Vynehall popped up on Martyn’s 3024 label with Music For The Uninvited, a critically acclaimed debut album inspired by “the formative cassette mixtapes” of his youth. This anniversary edition, which boasts reworked artwork and freshly re-mastered sounds, proves that the album has lost none of its allure. Musically, it offers a largely bass-heavy blend of deep house, Afro-house and techno rhythms, futuristic electronic instrumentation, immersive pads, sinewy strings and emotional resonance by the bucketload. This time round, we also get two bonus cuts, both of which were recorded during the same period in 2013: the Theo Parrish-esque excellence of ‘Peaces’ and the deep, jazzy and sample-rich broken house lusciousness of ‘Blue’.