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- Summary: Th sixth full-length release for the Staten Island instrumental funk ensemble was recorded in just five days.
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- Record Label: Daptone
- Genre(s): R&B, Funk, Pop/Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Instrumental Rock, African Traditions, Afro-beat, R&B Instrumental
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Oct 9, 2020While Long in the Tooth offers more or less what you expect, it does so at a very high level. The band has never sounded tighter, more collaborative or more sure of itself.
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Oct 9, 2020With the hip afro-funk of Long in the Tooth, The Budos Band continues to pump out infectious horn drenched jams.
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Oct 9, 2020Long in the Tooth is easily the most complex album in the Budos Band's catalog. It succeeds because they refuse to graft on too many extras into their sonic and stylistic approach. The music here retains the band's core strength -- they incessantly rely on deep, hard-swinging, intensely delivered grooves, no matter the material.
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MojoOct 9, 2020Here across 11 instrumentals, it's a totally entrancing journey as grooves are saturated by horn swells, eerie organ, bad-trip backwards guitars and drum breaks ready for sampling. [Nov 2020, p.83]
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Oct 9, 2020Daptone Records' most roguish staples have an enviable career and a sense of style that keeps on giving, and Long in the Tooth, for its ingenuity, is a vibrant continuation of that.
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The WireDec 9, 2020Sixth album Long In The Tooth burnishes the group’s analogue groove science with familiar movements of heroic, brassy swagger. [Jan 2021, p.72]