You have to admire BT, an artist who has stayed very true to his principles over the last 20 years or so, but who has also embraced change within dance music. In a recent interview with DMC he explained how his love of bass music was now a driving factor in his writing, and it comes across in the incredibly well constructed and produced ‘A Song Across Wires’. Ever since his first albums ‘Ima’ and ‘ESCM’ he has always had the ability to deal with large and small structures at the same time, so while he pays a lot of attention to the detail of a song it’s always done with relevance to the whole of an album. So it is with ‘A Song Across Wires’, which enjoys its well-chosen variety of vocal guests in a natural succession of peaks and troughs of intensity. The songs are well written and emotive, the bass lines course through the dance floor and the beats are rigorously programmed but also flexible. So BT has achieved the admirable double act of keeping what made him good in the first place, and moving with the times. It all makes for his best album in years.
5 out of 5
Reviewed by Ben Hogwood
