Album Info Hide Show Artist: Fatima & Joe Armon-Jones Album: Tinted Shades Released: Europe, 2022 Tracklist: A #1 A Tinted Shades B Love Life Hope Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. We ship vinyls in thick, rigid carboard mailers with a crushable zone on either side, and for extra safety we bubble wrap the records. 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You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show There is something quietly luminous about the way Fatima and Joe Armon-Jones fit together on Tinted Shades. She brings that cool, velvety presence honed on Eglo Records, the kind of voice that can turn a late bus ride into a scene from a film. He brings keys that seem to breathe, plus a producers ear sharpened in the London jazz and club underground. Released in 2023 on Joes Aquarii Records, the album feels like the place where modern soul, broken beat, and dubwise texture meet and shake hands. You can hear Joes fingerprints right away. Fender Rhodes chords roll in like warm weather after rain, synth bass curls around the kick, and everything leaves space for Fatima to glide. That push and pull suits her. She has always been a conversational singer, less about belting than about phrasing and pocket. Here she leans into that sweet spot. Hooks sneak up on you. A line lands, then the drums duck and the keys reply, and suddenly you are in the middle of a song that feels live even when it is clearly meticulous. The mood sits somewhere between a smoky London basement and a summer rooftop. Joe has worked that territory for years, from his solo records to collaborations that pull jazz into soundsystem gravity. If you have followed him since Turn to Clear View, or his 2022 link-up with Mala, you will recognize the patience in these grooves. Nothing rushes. Patterns build, percussion thickens, then the sub opens a trapdoor. Fatima answers with lyrics about closeness and self-preservation, the title Tinted Shades quietly hinting at the way we filter the world just to make it through. What really sticks is the chemistry. They do not crowd each other. When the keys step forward, Fatima relaxes into a lower register, almost speaking. When her melody lifts, Joe drops to minimalist chords and soft handclaps, or a rimshot that leaves the air ringing. The choices feel born from trust, the sort you get from artists who know rooms, bands, and crowds, not just studios. It is modern, yet you could slip it into a set with Soulquarians-era B-sides or early Floating Points and no one would blink. Production is plush but not slick. You get live-feeling hi-hats, soft-spring reverb, tape-like saturation around the edges. Little details pop on repeat listens, a synth flicker answering a backing vocal, a delayed clap that blooms into the next bar. If you are the type to file records by mood, this sits in that precious middle ground: low enough for 2 a.m., bright enough to start the morning. On a turntable, the low end feels especially satisfying, so if you are crate-digging for Fatima vinyl or curious about Tinted Shades vinyl, you are in luck. Aquariis pressing gives the bass room to move without smudging the highs, and the artwork suits the glow inside. Context matters here too. Fatimas path from Stockholm to London helped set the tone for a whole wing of contemporary soul, working with producers who keep one ear on the dancefloor and one on the jazz basement. Joe came up in the same citys explosive scene, a keys player tied to ensembles and DJs who took UK jazz out of narrow lanes and into clubs. That shared map is all over the record. A broken-beat shuffle will slide under a tender chorus, then a dubby drop resets the pulse. Nothing feels pasted together. It is lived-in. It is easy to imagine this getting plenty of spins in a Melbourne record store on a slow afternoon, heads nodding while someone at the counter talks up the line-up at the Forum that night. If you are hunting for Fatima albums on vinyl, this one belongs beside Yellow Memories and And Yet Its All Love. And if you like to buy Fatima records online, keep an eye on shops that specialize in jazz-soul crossovers and on Bandcamp, where Aquarii often keeps stock moving. For listeners in vinyl records Australia circles, this has that warm, full-range sound that rewards a decent system but still charms on a portable. Tinted Shades hits that sweet place where craft and ease meet. It feels intimate, like a set recorded for friends, yet built with care. No big gestures, no trend chasing, just deep pocket and songs that unfold the longer you sit with them. If you want a modern soul record that plays nice with jazz heads, beat-scene folks, and anyone who loves a well-tuned Rhodes, this is it. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review