Album Review: Marlon Roudette - Electric Soul

The second solo outing from the one-time Mattafix (Big City Life) vocalist initially appears to adhere to pop convention whilst there’s actually much seething under the surface.

The Londoner has soulful, funky chops with a perspicaciously lyrical versatility – seductive one minute, wandering late-night Soho streets the next – so how this rich body of talent has so far failed to convert into mainstream success is baffling. Electric Soul has the nostalgic pulse of the early pirate radio era Kiss FM with a desperately needed maturing of the heart of contemporary r’n’b.