Original Release Date: May 21, 2013. Label: Shanachie. Total Time: 01:18:27. The Brand New Heavies’ first release since 2006′s "Get Used To It". The BNH’s still hand make music with a real band on Forward, which is kind of a funny way to describe a classic disco/funk sound with plenty of strings and horns augmenting the basic trio of Jan Kincaid (drums, keyboards), Simon Bartholomew (guitar) and Andrew Levy (bass), but they come up with their own material and play actual instruments. When staying true to the spirit of the mirror ball, there’s no other way to do it.

But The Brand New Heavies are nothing without quality female lead vocals and longtime frontwoman N’Dea Davenport returns again to reprise that role for three tracks, including that dancefloor thumper “Sunlight.” A newcomer Dawn Joseph takes over the mike for three tracks herself, and Kincaid and Bartholomew take on a few songs of their own.

1. Forward
2. Sunlight
3. Do You Remember
4. On The One
5. A Little Funk In Your Pocket
6. Addicted
7. Lifestyle
8. Itzine
9. The Way It Goes
10. Lights
11. Turn The Music Up
12. Heaven
13. Spice Of Life
14. One More For The Road
15. Easy Now – Bonus Track
16. Sunlight (Disco Kingz Remix) – Bonus Track
17. Sunlight (Grayedout Remix) – Bonus Track