Another Side

Larry Heard gives Chicago house the long-form architecture the genre usually left to twelve-inches. Larry Heard threads Robert Owens' voice through a seventy-minute double album, while 'Can You Feel It' and 'Mysteries Of Love' sit inside a larger flow instead of functioning as isolated monuments. The depth comes from pacing as much as timbre.

The record where house stopped being tracks and became songs. Heard's programming breathes because he came to it as a drummer, and Owens remains the voice every deep house vocalist is measured against.

The first house album that works as an album, and still the emotional high-water mark. Heard's programming and Owens's voice do not sound like a producer hiring a singer. They sound like a band that happens not to have one.