Bouger le Monde! - Staff Benda Bilili
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  • Summary: The second album from the Congolese band with four paraplegic members sees the addition of a new drummer and lead guitarist.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Though capable lead vocalist Ricky Likabu and startling high tenor Theo Nzonza don't soar on record the way they do live, both lift audibly out of the wheeled conveyances from which a gang of polio survivors articulated their humanity and launched their inspired hustle.
  2. 80
    Bouger Le Monde offers a celebration of life.
  3. Sep 19, 2012
    80
    There's much more depth to the sequel. [Oct 2012, p.91]
  4. Sep 6, 2012
    80
    All the freshness and ingenuity that made their 2009 debut such a revelation is here. [Oct 2012, p.111]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. A year before the release of the movie "Benda Bilili", which raised admiration for their courage but did little to showcase their talent as musicians, the group had fortunately released a brilliant and very successful album which made totally forget their disabled status. Amazingly, their second album "Move The World" is even better. Expand

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