FACE YOUR FEAR | CURTIS HARDING

11.26.17 While I am reminded of recent soul artists like Raphael Saadiq, Allen Stone, Ms Whinehouse, and the Daptone Records artists performing their take on retro-soul, Harding seems to offer a more modern approach. Harding's sophomore effort here is a real potent record with great accompanied string, vocal, key and horn arrangements that, for me, almost seem as if they are out of a 1960s romance. The journey becomes more modern as Face.. reaches it's pinnacle with three dazzling tracks: "Dream Girl" (almost Jamiroquai sounding), "Welcome To My World" and "Ghost Of You".

Mark Deming at Allmusic writes: Curtis Harding's debut album, 2014's Soul Power, was a strikingly confident work that demonstrated he was one of the smartest and most gifted artists to emerge from the retro-soul scene, a vocalist and songwriter with a respect for the past and a vision . . .