US (Vinyl LP) Indie Punk & Alternative

US (Vinyl LP) Indie Punk & AlternativeA killer diller bit of essential funk. The only full album cut by Maceo with James Brown production! The set's got Maceo coming back strongly into the JB fold, with a fierce array of funky cuts that kick it every bit as hard as the best JBs work of the time. No surprise, the JBs are working with Maceo on the arrangements and backing, letting his funky horn take the lead, but coming up on their own with the impeccably tight rhythms that have forever

Written and released in 1970 whilst John and Beverley were still very much in a relationship

and James Krivchenia desired in 2020

Eight years on from their meeting and recording

Kellee Patterson's Maiden Voyage was simply an extremely tasteful

The 'Cool' subtitle could not be more relevant to an album

But Ride were more than mere noise-merchants

It floats freely in the pop cosmos somewhere between gauzy shoegaze

you not only hear the unique differences within the Gallic approach to the art form (combining masterful somber cinematic changes with aerated free-form percussion and erratic reed and brass)

hip-hop and something noiser still

Let Me Go Free / 7

local Kumasi legends CK Mensah

A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR