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16 July 2025

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Ezra Collective

Where I'm Meant To Be

Second album from the five-piece British jazz collective featuring guest appearances from Nao, Kojey Radical, Sampa The Great, and Emeli Sandé

ADM rating[?]: 7.8
Label: Partisan
UK Release date: 04/11/2022
US Release date: 04/11/2022

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10.0132161
10.0 | The Observer
This sophisticated second album from the five instrumentalists could just see them cross over to the big league
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9.0132156
9.0 | Clash
Ezra Collective have once again released an album that is hard to fault
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8.0132157
8.0 | The Skinny
The jazz quintet have crafted a supremely effective call to surrender yourself to the present and celebrate life through dance
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8.0132158
8.0 | All Music
While Where I'm Meant to Be is a logical follow-up to Ezra Collective's debut, it's a soulful, musically advanced, rhythmically infectious one, too
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8.0132159
8.0 | Mojo
Ezra Collective's confidence hits a fizzing high on this freewheeling 14-track double. Print edition only
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8.0 | Record Collector
It’s hands down the band’s most powerful and compelling musical statement to date; a vivid snapshot of an important inflection point in their career trajectory
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7.0132162
7.0 | Gigwise
A eulogy for the band’s role in the London jazz scene
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7.0 | Loud And Quiet
There are cornball moments – Emeli Sandé delivering the line “Jump into the moment and make sure you make a splash” on the otherwise lovely ‘Siesta’ comes to mind – but Ezra Collective’s earnestness is still infectious. Don’t overthink it
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7.0132160
7.0 | Uncut
Its focus is tighter, its punches more considered. Print edition only
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