LISA STANSFIELD - Deeper (2018) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Like Seven, released four years earlier, Lisa Stansfield's eighth album bounces from style to style with the singer's deeply impassioned, life-embracing approach a constant feature. Sophisticated pop, Motown/Philadelphia International-styled retro-soul, a few flavors of house, and even muted go-go and elegant drum'n'bass factor into the material. Most unforeseen is "Hercules," not an update of the Allen Toussaint classic but a fiery hero's theme that incorporates the Bo Diddley beat, a triumphant horn arrangement from master Jerry Hey, and the main riff from John Carpenter's "Assault on Precinct 13." A few cuts rate with Stansfield's best. The title song sounds like it was designed to fit with smooth early-'80s R&B grooves like the Mary Jane Girls' "All Night Long" and Keni Burke's "Risin' to the Top." One of the more contemporary numbers, "Billionaire" -- among several songs co-written with career-long partner Ian Devaney -- is a confrontational belter delivered with the high levels of flair and agility displayed on Stansfield's biggest hits. The Family Stand's "Ghetto Heaven" gets a decelerated interpretation, outfitted with a different breakbeat, a reference to Common's "Geto Heaven, Pt. 2," and Stansfield measuredly coursing from verse to chorus to verse like she has blissfully lost herself in the song. This is the singer's most enjoyable album since her self-titled 1997 work. by Andy Kellman  
Tracklist :
1    Everything    4:12
Ian Devaney / Lisa Stansfield
2    Twisted 3:55
Ian Devaney / Lisa Stansfield
Arranged By [Horn] – Ian Devaney, John Thirkell
Drums – Kevin Whitehead
Handclaps – Snowboy
3    Desire    4:28
Lisa Stansfield
4    Billionaire 3:24
Ian Devaney / Lisa Stansfield
Drums – Kevin Whitehead
5    Coming Up For Air    4:06
Ian Devaney / Lisa Stansfield
6    Love Of My Life 4:19
Ian Devaney / Lisa Stansfield
Arranged By [Horn] – Ian Devaney, John Thirkell
7    Never Ever 3:53
Lisa Stansfield
Arranged By [Horn] – Jerry Hey
Vibraphone – Max Beesley
8    Hercules 4:07
John Carpenter / Lisa Stansfield
Arranged By [Horn] – Jerry Hey
Drums – Kevin Whitehead
9    Hole In My Heart 3:42
Lisa Stansfield
Drums – Kevin Whitehead
10    Just Can't Help Myself    4:04
Lisa Stansfield
11    Deeper 4:03
Lisa Stansfield
Arranged By [Horn] – John Thirkell
Bass – Paul "Punkpappa" Lancaster
Drums – Kevin Whitehead
Guitar – Ben Barker
Saxophone, Soloist – Mick Donnelly
12    Butterflies 4:34
Lisa Stansfield
Arranged By [Horn] – Jerry Hey
Saxophone, Soloist – Atholl Ransome
13    Ghetto Heaven 4:48
Guitar – Ben Barker
Soprano Saxophone, Soloist – Mickey Donnelly
Sound Designer – "Sting" Davies
Written-By – Thompson, Poyser, Lynn, Archer, Moreland, St. Victor, Smith
Credits :
Cello – Peter Dixon
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Arranged By [Vocal] – Lisa Stansfield
Leader [Orchestra], Violin – Andrew Price
Orchestrated By [Additional] – Stephen Boyce Buckley*
Percussion, Programmed By – Snowboy
Producer, Keyboards, Guitar, Programmed By, Arranged By [Strings] – Ian Devaney
Saxophone, Flute – Dan Higgins, Mick Donnelly, Chris "Snake" Davis
Technician [Guitar] – Michael Jenkins (6)
Trombone – Neil Sidwell, Steve Holtman
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Chuck Findley, Gary Grant, John Thirkell, Louis Dowdswell
Viola – Fiona Dunkley, Martin Wallington
Violin – Clare Dixon, Karen Mainwaring, Rachel Porteous