Jimmy Scott Free return with "Turn Back Time"

After a decade of silence, stepping back onto the scene by performing with her new anthem of change, "Turn Back Time," Jimmy Scott Free. With the unmissable vocals of the late house diva Kim English, the track is both a poignant tribute and an angry announcement of a comeback. Born in Southend and now living somewhere between the Midlands and Barcelona, Jimmy Scott Free has built something of a cross-border soul fusion existence. This track embodies that duality, grounded in the tradition and striding out toward the new.

It's also got that nostalgic underpinning of memories woven into its production, and the type of memories that have you back on packed dance floors with raised hands in the air and flashing lights. But running through those memories as well is a current of renewal, a lesson that music isn't just about longing for what's gone; it's about bringing what's gone back to life and making it new and now. In this manner, "Turn Back Time" reconciles memory with momentum: an echo not just of the artist's journey, but of the continued urgency of Kim English's voice.

"Turn Back Time" somehow manages to bottle that rarest commodity in a song, something that sounds as familiar as John Lennon's "Imagine" and as arrestingly fresh as the future. It's built on the bedrock of ecstatic house grooves, exultant vocals, and a warmth that attests to the survival instincts of an artist who's crossed the chasm that divides who he was from who he is. It's a comeback for Jimmy Scott Free, and one that is making a statement for the UK music scene, and that statement is: Listen to me.

 On "Turn Back Time," Jimmy Scott Free demonstrates that receding does not equal vanishing. Sometimes it means coming back harder, funnier, or a little meaner and a little surer of the idea that music is supposed to do, which is make the human body move, and, if possible, the human soul as well.

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