Toddla T: Watch Me Dance – review

To accept the invitation extended by the title of Toddla T's second album is to spend 40 minutes in the company of a hyperactive dance DJ/producer from Sheffield – real name Tom Bell – who jumps between styles and tempos with a manic exuberance until the music tires itself (and this listener) out. It starts well with rapper Roots Manuva coaxing his gruff vocals into song on the title track. After that, it's ups and downs, and Toddla proves himself better at preposterously high-energy dancehall tracks ("Badman Flu") than forays into early-90s piano-led vocal house ("Take It Back"). Good fun in small measures.