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Review: London jazz star Oscar Jerome proves he can bend spoons with jazz on his latest LP 'The Spoon'. Like a red-pilled soothsayer, he reduces all metal to its constituent molten parts, largely through the mode of lo-fi, dreamy pop jazz and neo-soul. Paeans to lockdown ('Sweet Isolation'), flourishingly spiritual harp and guitar interludes ('The Soup', 'Aya & Bartholomew') and impeccably produced singles ('Channel Your Anger', 'Feed The Pigs') make this a thoroughly difficult-to-pin-down yet texturally deep album, reminiscent of the production mastery of electronic fusion greats like Morgan Agren or Burnt Friedman. It's Jerome's best yet by far.

Review: South London's Oscar Jerome is a real keystone of the capitals's ongoing jazz renaissance. His highly-anticipated debut album Breathe Deep comes on Caroline International and shows just why he has become such a revered voice in the last jazz movement having already worked with the likes of Shabaka Hutchings, Moses Boyd and Yussef Dayes. He calls on a wealth of collaborators here, too, including Joe Armon-Jones and Sons of Kemet, and they all add extra chops to a record that, says the artist, "is a pretty broad presentation of who I am musically and my journey to get to this point."