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- Summary: The debut full-length solo release for the ZZ Top frontman features influences from Afro-Cuban music.
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- Record Label: Concord
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Blues-Rock, Album Rock, Hard Rock, Southern Rock, Boogie Rock
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Positive: 6 out of 11
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Mixed: 4 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11
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UncutOct 27, 2015When the guitarist and singer pairs their familiar hard-boiled, in-the-red licks with Latin rhythms and transcendent B3 organ flights, the combination is revelatory. [Dec 2015, p.71]
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MojoOct 27, 2015Gibbons's wily blend of open-mindedness and roots-loyalty remains intact. [Nov 2015, p.86]
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Q MagazineOct 28, 2015Perfectamundo explodes into glorious Technicolor. [Dec 2015, p.107]
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Oct 27, 2015All this flair is a welcome reminder that, for all his vaunted blues purism, Gibbons remains something of a futurist, happily blurring the lines between the present and past along with obliterating the lines between cultures.
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Kerrang!Dec 14, 2015You get exactly the sort of greasy grooves you'd expect, but with a whole lot of Cuban cool thrown in as well. [14 Nov 2015, p.52]
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Nov 10, 2015It doesn't all come together seamlessly. But the same down-home smoothness and rumbling gravitas that fired Eliminator keeps things flowing.
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Jan 15, 2016Perfectamundo is essentially tepid blues rock (featuring many warmed over standards) with a Latin rhythm section slapped on for some longed for but unrequited funk credibility.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Nov 16, 2015
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