One of our favourite British producers and surely the 21st century’s lead contender for James Brown’s former mantle of “hardest-working man in show-business”, Will Holland returns with his eighth long-player for the ace Brighton label and it’s certainly no disappointment.  Pulling together all the strands that have defined his work so far and introducing some vibrant new colours from Puerto Rico to New York, not to mention some sublime eastern melodies, An Announcement To Answer manages to reiterate exactly what it was that made us sit up and take notice of Quantic in the first place.  You could call it his most accomplished and mature work to date, but that doesn’t mean he’s abandoned the dance floor and gone on all jazz-noodle on yo’ ass.  The beats are as tight and fat, the brass as hooky and the bass as warm and seductive as ever.  So, while lead single Tell It Like You Mean has been causing a fire on the floor since it dropped earlier this season, there’s plenty more ammo in Quantic’s arsenal.  It is mostly instrumental, but there’s not a duff tune here and some flaming new vocal tracks introduce new collaborators, too, not least Brooklyn-born rapper Ohmega Watts, who sums up our man’s talent so succinctly on Blow Your Horn: ‘Quantic, one of the few to bridge gaps between Afro-beat-hip hop with goods to match.’  Err… spot on!  Basically, Will Holland is a very clever young man and this shit is the shit, if you know what I mean.