Broad Souls

Faze Action | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 22, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bar De Lune Boxes
• ASIN: B0001XLWAS
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #461,661 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. We Don’t Know How

2. The Broad Souls

3. Three Foot High

4. Outside

5. Goodbye Remedy

6. Walking Time

7. Vigilante Song

8. There’s No Time

9. God Inside

10. Hear My Prayer

Editorial Reviews

London’s smartest funk soul brothers Robin and Simon Lee are Faze Action. The duo has spent the last two years finishing their latest studio album, alongside a new vocalist who breathed soul into their existing trademark sound of elegance.

As pioneers of the brilliant nu-disco sound in the mid ‘90s, Faze Action blazed a dramatic trail with 1997’s masterful Plans And Designs LP on Nuphonic Records. Championed by a multitude of fans including jazz supremo Gilles Peterson, their thrilling and chilling blend of dramatic disco and impassioned strings won the band a massive club following in the UK.

Broad Souls, a concise yet expansive ten-track collection, is Faze Action’s first project with a new vocalist Andre Espeut, a man whose voice is a smooth blend of Terry Callier and Nat King Cole – perfectly reflecting the album’s mood, that is intimate, soothing, elegant and rich.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Faze Action - Broad Souls, March 1, 2011

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scoundrel - See all my reviews

This review is from: Broad Souls (Audio CD)

BROAD SOULS is a mildly disappointing third album from Faze Action; they've gone from making great neo-disco to middling soul. "We Don't Know How" introduces us to the vocals of Andre Espeuf in a psychedelic soul session. The strings that made their first two albums wonderful are here again, but they take a back seat to the vocals. "Three Foot High" works somewhat better, perhaps because it's more stripped down -- the same goes for "Outside" (even if it steals a riff from Stevie Wonder's "Part-Time Lover"). The flute and horns of "Goodbye Remedy" still speak of Faze Action's songwriting skills, though "Walking Time" could use a little more writing and a little less looping. "Vigilante Song" and "There's No Time" bring some dusk to the album, and "God Inside" gives a dark spin to spirituality, but "Hear My Prayer" gets back to the positive side. By no means is this a poor album, but I had simply expected better.

4.0 out of 5 stars PLEASE DON'T EXPECT A "MOVING CITIES"!!!, November 10, 2004

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Darrell L. Lee "dlatrell" (Jackson, MS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Broad Souls (Audio CD)

Veering away from the uptempo funk of the impressive "Moving Cities", Faze Action slows the beat down tremendously on the their latest release "Broad Souls". This time full of sexy vocals from male vocalist (a rare thing on electronica albums) Andre Espuet and blissful orchestration from the brethren producers Simon and Robin Lee, "Broad Souls" sounds like a cross between Air, Zero 7 and Alpha. Not as daring as material from the aforementioned groups, "Broad Souls" still holds its own as a pretty satisfying and emotional downtempo album.