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  • Summary: The second full-length release for the British jazz composer and tuba player features contributions from Afronaut Zu, Ahnansé, Consensus, Remi Graves, Shumba Maasai, and Oren Marshall.
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  • Record Label: Marathon Artists
  • Genre(s): Electronic, Rap, Jazz, Reggae, Dancehall, Dub, British Rap, International, Ambient Breakbeat, Dubstep, African Traditions, Afro-beat, Jazz-Funk, Modal Music, Caribbean Traditions, Soca, Grime
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  1. Mojo
    Oct 29, 2021
    80
    Paints on a much broader canvas here than 2019's debut Fyah, roving roughshod across genres. ... In Cross's seasoned palms the tuba's possibilities feel endless. [Dec 2021, p.89]
  2. Oct 29, 2021
    80
    With ‘The Spiral’ acting as a key moment, a fusion of individual voice and collective endeavour, it’s clear that his journey has only just started.
  3. Oct 29, 2021
    80
    Whereas Fyah relied on jazz and funk as twin lines of harmonic and rhythmic inquiry, Intra-I multiplies their import by strategically locating them inside a far deeper, wider mix to create an original music that looks squarely at the future.
  4. Nov 1, 2021
    75
    Intra-I is the soundtrack for a new generation of music lovers to grow with. Cross hasn’t just connected his instrument with the soundsystem culture that informs his music, he’s made it an integral component of that tradition.
  5. Uncut
    Oct 29, 2021
    70
    His second album is a rich, meaty fusion of jazz, grime, hip-hop, dancehall and reggae. [Dec 2021, p.26]