Description
Label Review.
2019 album. Soul/funk.
Our Overview.
American funkadelic cool cat, Allen Stone, returns with his new album - is first in 4 years since 2015s ‘Radius’ - entitled ’Building Balance’ which sees the soul vanguard taking his soul stirring R&B and funk to the next artistic level. Allen continues to draw inspiration from 70s funk and classic soul with current flexes, sitting amid D’Angelo in its sultrier moments, Stevie Wonder at its most melodic and the production of Mark Ronson at its most modern. The album features the most personal, lushly produced and gorgeously performed songs of this astonishingly talented singer-songwriters career. An album full of Allen’s catchy, soulful tunes that are full of heartfelt sentiment and foot-tapping grooves.
Recorded in a number of studios in Nashville with three producers: the acclaimed British artist Jamie Lidell, Grammy-winning producer Nasri and Jeremy Most (Emily King). The album is a textured amalgam of R&B and soul, a result of several personal cowriting sessions, collaborations with Emily King and Theo Katzman / Joey Dosik of Vulfpeck and lyrics by Allen.
Sentimental (‘Brown Eyed Lover’, ‘Consider Me’) and replete with nostalgic funk (‘Back To The Swing’, ‘Sweaters’), Allen’s third album shows an artist who has grown into his own and learned to balance and appreciate all parts of his life: the vices of the past and the gifts of the present, career and family, the brilliant highs and discouraging lows.