Vol II: 1990, a New Decade

Following up an album that had revolutionised not just Black British music, but made huge waves in hip hop, R&B, dance music and even indie rock internationally can’t have been easy. But just a year on, this really does rival Volume 1 – Club Classics for sheer soulful lushness. It’s mostly the kind of laid-back, loping grooves that made Jazzie B’s collective huge, but there’s deep understanding of US house, throwbacks to Loose Ends style 80s soul, jazz (courtesy of Courtney Pine) and more: the sense of currents flowing together is fantastic.