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Tuesday, January 05, 2016

LP Review | Fleur East - Love, Sax and Flashbacks

Fleur East
Love, Sax and Flashbacks
Syco
Release date: December 4, 2015

By Shawal Ras


 Fleur East's debut album is sooo good, I should've put it among last year's best albums. 

A cohesively-produced pop album, Love, Sax and Flashbacks thrives on that funky retro feel as if it were produced and released in the 70's among the likes of Michael Jackson, Donna Summer, Tina Turner, etc. 

I'm telling ya; it's pretty dope.

The album opens with its strongest tracks, 'Sax' and 'Breakfast', with East making us understand from the get-go that it's a fun album and it's none of those ballads-filled albums released by Brit's finest exports nowadays. 

Other than those two, summore tracks that got me all happy are ‘Paris’, ‘Gold Watch’, and ‘Love Me or Leave Me Alone’ which feels like an instant R&B jam and it caught my attention with its Instagram-worthy line: "Imma leave your ass quicker than a Snapchat". 

LMAO.

Anyway. The reason I'm saying the album is good is because the whole CD is relentlessly un-boring. There's always something new in each track (such as that half-rap chorus in 'Kitchen') and I love it when this album got me dancing the moment the chorus hit in 'Sax'. 

The lack of Oxford comma aside, y'all should buy this album and put it on repeat. I've never been this excited about a product of a reality TV than this one since Olly Murs.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars.