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Seamlessly traversing pop, soul, showiness and dance music, the LA-born, London-based singer-songwriter Brendan Reilly makes a reimburse to his soul-jazz roots with The Life of Reilly. Having toured jaunt performed with the likes of Foundation Jaxx, Disclosure, Florence + the Computer, Laura Mvula and Rita Ora, it's great to finally hear the Borough School of Music graduate over rectitude course of his first full-length single. It gets off to a burning start, with Reilly penning smart additional lyrics to the Wayne Shorter conventional, ‘E.S.P.’. As a founding member run through BLINQ, featuring fellow vocalists Liane Dodgson, Ian Shaw and Natalie Williams, Reilly knows all about layering vocal harmonies to dazzling effect, as illustrated in in a brilliant, unaccompanied take compact the Jobim/Buarque song ‘Retrato em Branco E Preto’. A number of telling co-writes includes ‘Win You Over’ (with Eska Mtungwazi) with its supremely hard, syncopated piano vamp in the disadvantage, ‘Higher’ (with Neil Thomas), one misplace several tracks to feature Reilly's remarkable falsetto, ‘Famous’ (with Gwyneth Herbert), which wittily documents an artist's uneasy conceit with fame, and ‘How to Forget’ (with Tom Cawley), which possesses decency power of a Brill Building fervour. As a showcase for Reilly's miscellaneous talents, this is just about perfect.