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  • Summary: The Brooklyn Afro-beat ensemble releases it first album in four years on new label Daptone Records.

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  1. Positive: 17 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. Magnet
    Sep 5, 2012
    90
    The Antibalas crew is in peak form, plating circles around any other second-wave Afrobeat outfit in town. [#90, p.53]
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  2. New Musical Express (NME)
    Aug 31, 2012
    80
    This fifth album of Afro-Latin rhythms, tropical chanting and brass from the former TV On The Radio (on 'Return To Cookie Mountain' and 'Dear Science') and Foals ('Antidotes') collaborators will do nicely.
  3. RapReviews.com
    Sep 6, 2012
    80
    Antibalas' latest preserves the musical history of Fela Kuti, and is a hell of a good time.
  4. The Independent on Sunday (UK)
    Aug 31, 2012
    60
    Casual bystanders might wish for more memorable songs or some advancement of the form.

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