Soul Strutter: D Mills [2021] - Prism [Self Released] (Full Album)

A new album from D Mills released 1 Jul 2021. I skimmed through its thirteen tracks briefly yesterday and nothing really jumped out except the Stan Taylor track "Talk To Me" got my attention as I know of him from a duets EP with Raquel Rodriguez last year. When I started hearing rap and obvious blue-eyed 'yacht rock' vocals on several tracks I put the album to one side and moved on.

I've re-listened to it and there are one or two good tracks. One features Amber Navran "Leave The Light On" and also the track following it with Chantae Cann ("Be Mine (Sunshine)") which has some cool jazz licks.

I normally like tracks involving Astyn Turr as she's got a great voice, but not this one as it's mainly a rap track. It starts off 'dramatically' as if it's going to be some sort of opus and Astyn's voice is heard only to be cut out immediately by a rapper (MillsWasChosen) for a full minute until her voice is heard again for all of 35 second before we get the rap again for another 30 seconds then I gave up on it as it's a rap tune with Astyn's vocals rather than the other way around!

D (Danny) Mills is an L.A. producer who is the great great grandson of the jazz/blues legend Bessie Smith who died in 1937. He doesn't appear to release singles but has released around five albums since 2007.

Don't judge the album like I did from the first four tracks as the second half of the album is much better.

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