Where I'm meant to be

"Ezra Collective have long been the London jazz scene's de facto party band, but their second album is a sophisticated step up ... Their ever-expanding vocabulary - always heavy on afrobeat, dub and the young sounds of London - includes riotous salsa, UK funky, what sounds like the brass backbone to South African gqom and some seriously impressive genre blends in the league of Little Simz. The mellifluous vocals of chameleonic rappers Kojey Radical and Sampa the Great wrap around their music, serpentine-like; singers Emeli Sandé and Nao sparkle respectively on Siesta (...) and the cosmic devotional Love in Outer Space. Ezra Collective show off not just their intuitive playing, but their knack for songwriting.The result is an exceptional album that centres joy and community, radiates positivity and youthful abandon, and could well be the one to cross over to the big league".

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"Ezra Collective's confidence hits a fizzing high on this freewheeling 14-track double, just shy of 70 minutes. While they're very able collaborators, highlighting the lesser-known sides of rappers Sampa The Great and Kojey Radical and Scottish singer Emeli Sandé (...), genre-slippery instrumentals like "Victory Dance", "Ego Killah" and Live Strong" best display the heady telepathy between saxophonist James Mollison and trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi, the rippling keys of Joe Armon-Jones and ever-shifting pulse of brothers in rhythm Femi and TJ Koleoso".