Its a badly kept secret that a lot of people
believe Johns heading for future stardom
with a voice with the timbre of the greats of
Soul music. Who could deny that?
For Smoove and Turrell, their time is coming,
and soon. Snowboy

Eccentric Audio is the second album from
Geordie duo Smoove & Turrell. Their first
album Antique Soul established John Turrell as
the UKs leading Bluesman and scored the duo
live sessions on the BBC, two Records of the
week on Radio 2 and a playlist on 6 Music.

During the year they were promoting their
debut album Antique Soul, Johns incredible
blues vocals had not gone unnoticed and he
received offers to moonlight as the singer for
Ashley Beedles MAVIS project and as singer
for the Fantasy Funk Band a live band put
together by long time Smoove & Turrell
supporter and all round top funker Craig
Charles. With the support of Smoove - John
spread his prodigious talent as far and wide
as possible in 2010 playing with James Taylor
, Dr Rubberfunk and Kraak & Smaak as well as
the collaborations above in order to draw as
much attention to the next Smoove & Turrell
album as possible.

And so after a winter and spring hibernation
in the studio Smoove & Turrell are back with
their second album Eccentric Audio. All
questions about a difficult second album are
brushed aside with the first listen which
shows John Turrell at the top of his game
lyrically and vocally while Smoove delivers a
timeless production that references but never
mimics the greats of soul, hip hop, jazz and
rhythm and blues. More focused than their
first album, tracks like Money are influenced
by the politically aware black music of the
70s while the incredibly melancholy Wasted
Man owes as much to songwriters like Nick
Drake and trip hop like Massive Attack as it
does to Funk & Soul.

First single Slow Down sees John deliver a
powerful vocal that evokes the ratpack at
their height (assuming Frank, Dean & the boys
had lived through acid house and a youth
growing up in the North east that is), Broke
delivers a riff that De la Soul would have
been proud of and Higher is a full tilt
Northern Soul stomper. Never ones to forget
about what their fans want live favourites
Let Yourself Go, Hard Work and Its the
Falling In Love make sure that this is an
album you could put on repeat at a party.

An accomplished DJ who makes his living by
making people dance, Smooves hand is all over
the album sequence which builds and drops,
ebbs and flows until as the final bar rings
out the listener knows they have just been
part of Something Special.