Ezra CollectiveBest Ezra Collective Albums Ranked

Dance, No One's Watching

nme

8.0

“Ezra Collective want you dance to their new album. Hardly surprising if you’ve ever listened to them before – whether it was in 2019 when they dropped their first album as rising stars of the UK jazz underground, or in 2023, when they won the Mercury Prize. They know what they’re good at: thumping, gyrating dancefloor music, built on a pacy undercurrent of upbeat jazz grooves. But now, they’re mak”

You Can't Steal My Joy

nme

8.0

“Jazz often gets a bad rap. There’s a common perception that it’s a touch stuffy; a genre crammed with chin-strokers and affluent old blokes skodoodadadabbing along to the double bass. It’s certainly a perception that Ezra Collective’s drummer and ringleader Femi Koleoso also held in the past, too. “I saw jazz music as an elite art form that I didn’t have access to,” he told the New York Times “lik”

You Can't Steal My Joy

loudandquiet

8.0

“2018: the year everyone became happy because the alternatives were too bleak. Bands started penning the joyful resistance; ecstasy in the face of austerity; the creative industry’s peaceful protest. It only figures that sustained joy would be the next stage of the revolution. Ezra Collective’s debut album comes in as a kind of positive digestion system, leeching off your falsified happiness and r”

Where I'm Meant To Be (Deluxe Edition)

loudandquiet

7.0

“It seems quaint now to think things were bad at the beginning of 2019, when Ezra Collective released their debut album You Can’t Steal My Joy; there wasn’t a global pandemic for a start, and even the most heinous, Tory boot-licker celebrant of austerity couldn’t have predicted the energy crisis we’re currently heading towards. Back then, London’s vanguard jazz act offered a white-hot emollient, a ”