Wax Poetic

Wax Poetic leader Ilhan Ersahin is famous for collaborating with Norah Jones and for guiding the massive N.Y.C. music collective called Nublu. While Ersahin thrives on working with others, this is the first Wax Poetic album to meet artists on foreign ground. Chilly Scandinavian arty guitar-pop meshes with Wax Poetic's hypnotic, club-ready grooves on cuts like "Under the Sun" and "Swing Swing." Meanwhile, "Sit Down and Cry" proves that London-style downtempo is still the audio lingua franca of velvet-walled lounges the world over. New vocalist Marla Turner sounds like a star in the making.