Review: Australian collective Hiatus Kaiyote's trademark sound has long been rotted in jazz-funk, but as fourth album Love Heart Cheat Code proves, there's always been much more to it than that. Produced by Brazilian maestro Mario Caldato Jr - best known for his work with the Beastie Boys, Seu Jorge and Jack Johnson - the album delivers a forward-thinking and undeniably attractive take on future soul variously informed by jazz-funk, broken beat, modern r&b, neo-soul and sun-soaked downtempo grooves. The results are uniformly impressive, with our picks of a very strong bunch including the sparkling and up-lifting 'Everything's Beautiful', the spaced-out Fugees flex of 'Love Heart Cheat Code' and the squally guitars and blue-eyed soul insanity of 'Cinnamon Temple'.
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