Seeing as we missed out on their "We Travel Fast" album (hint, hint!), W&H had only been grooving on CHUNGKING'S reputation prior to hearing "Let The Love In," but - yeah - the mutterings were accurate enough.
"Let The Love In" is one of those irresistible records that ensures the temperature improves instantly, the sun appears from behind the clouds and all your hassles are sloughed off. Buoyed up by surefire jazzy snare rolls, a slip-slidin' liquid bassline and cool backing vocals, to say it's got soul is something of an understatement.
OK, it's aided and abetted by Tim "Love" Lee's input, too, but it's easy to see why vocalist Jessie Banks is garnering such kudos. She is the possessor of a truly remarkable larynx and uses it to great effect on "Let The Love In", from that opening "Yeah!" onwards. She's capable of such gymnastics that it's heard to tell if that's a vocoder effect or not, but whatever, she's off into places most UK-based female vocalists can even think of shaking a stick at.
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The perfect summer anthem that will sustain us even when the black clouds finally roll in and obliterate the gorgeous sunshine that's still prevailing as your reviewer scribbles, "Let The Love In" is just seductively delicious. "I think I'm in love" coos Jessie's refrain. A-ha. Can't even begin to argue with that one.
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