Jamie Lidell’s reputation has largely been built on the back of hisSupercollider partnership with Christian Vogel, his well receivedMuddlin’ Gear album for Warp and some spectacular recent live ...
"I'm so tired of repeating myself, beating myself up, gonna take a trip and multiply" As far as mission statements go, Jamie Lidell would be hard pushed to beat the chorus of his new single, the title ...
Fun fact: Lidell has joined the ranks of the Scissor Sisters and Ryan Adams as one of Elton John’s favorite new muses, with the veteran pop star lauding the neo-soul vocalist in his Interview magazine ...
From KCRW DJ Dan Wilcox: Last night I had the pleasure of seeing the great Jamie Lidell perform live at the Troubadour… an event I have waited years to experience. Tall and lanky, wearing some kind of ...
Jamie Lidell used funk samples in his past DJ work and after the breakthrough 2005 album 'Multiply,' continues to create his own blend of retro-soul tunes with the new record, 'Jim.' Loops are swapped ...
The Hype: With a voice that appears to have time traveled directly from sixties-era soul, Jamie Lidell continues to amaze listeners with the idea that the voice they're hearing is coming out of a ...
On “Walk Right Back,” the first single from Jamie Lidell’s forthcoming album Building a Beginning, the postmodern soul man yearns openly for his inner child, singing about reconnecting with the pure ...
Chicago’s weather may be barely warm enough for short sleeves, but Jamie Lidell still managed to set Chicago’s Abbey Pub ablaze last night (June 4), singing like he was possessed by the soul of Ray ...
It takes some patient, ear-to-the-speaker listening before Jamie Lidell’s off-kilter, glitch-funk tendencies come to light on Multiply, but that sultry subtlety makes the album a repeat-play sleeper.
It came as something of a shock when Jamie Lidell upped sticks from his leftfield Super Collider work, picked up the microphone and put his soulful voice to good use. The result, the splendid Multiply ...
On his first solo album, 2000’s Muddlin Gear (Warp), Jamie Lidell hid behind walls of squelchy noise and dirty beats–it was the sort of in-your-face postelectronica record that a California nutjob ...