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Julien Dyne

Beck returns with a mouth-watering feast of beats and grooves crafted by himself and his old Odelay accomplices the Dust Brothers

and Led Zeppelin when they created this well-produced

the flautist's quest for authenticity led him to many corners of the musical world

Caramel Against Me! and legends like Big LThe true cosmonaut of inner space Connan Mockasin with a fantastic 11 track set. The album explores different regions of his galaxy, not just soul but a liquefied brew of blues, funk, ambient and folk with pronounced Oriental and Gallic timbres, all laced with an uncanny air of bliss. Caramel has hints of Scritti Politti's exquisitely stitched soul, or of Prince if the Minneapolis legend had spent time in Canterbury, the learned epicentre of South