Recording
Sincere
MJ Cole
Independently chosen for4 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.
- Released
- 1998
- Label
- Talkin' Loud
- On
- UK Garage, The Waxonia Desk — A Way In, The Waxonia Desk — Garage on the Mix, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
- ISRC
- GBF080000103
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Ranked No. 1 in UK Garage
A classically trained musician applied conservatory technique to 2-step and produced the genre's most beautiful record. The strings are real and it shows in every bar.
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — A Way In
Garage at its most elegant: a two-step shuffle that never lands where you expect, under a vocal treated as an instrument. The genre's case that rhythm alone can be luxurious.
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — Garage on the Mix
The most musically ambitious record the genre produced, made by a classically trained producer. Garage's reputation for glamour has always obscured how well built the best of it was.
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
The most musically ambitious record UK garage produced, by a classically trained producer who could have done anything and chose two-step.