New Street Adventure - Quel genre de monde ?

What Kind of World? is New Street Adventure's third album for Acid Jazz, and their first release in eight years. Nick Corbin always finds the passion beneath the maturity.

The London band rose to prominence around 2010 with an incisive, catchy approach to soul, with songs like Big AC and On Our Front Doorstep taking a sarcastic, sometimes furious, look at everyday life without ever losing sight of what made that life worth living. A series of concerts for the tenth anniversary of their debut album last year clearly reignited something, because this record arrives sounding energetic rather than nostalgic, ten songs that trade in some of the past aggression for greater emotional range without softening.

The title track opens the album by immediately setting the tone broader, more reflective than the band's previous anthems but no less direct. Get You Back is the clearest pop moment here, a real hook delivered with real conviction, while What A Woman carries the record's sharpest touch, closer in spirit to the band's brutal early period than anything else on the record. The Next Chapter ends with exactly the kind of quiet confidence its title implies.

Corbin has always written about ordinary struggles without wallowing in them. Fifteen years later, that instinct hasn’t faded at all.