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- Summary: The second full-length release for New Orleans-based R&B band Tank And The Bangas features contributions from Big Freedia, Wayne Brady, Lalah Hathaway, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Questlove, and Trombone Shorty.
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- Record Label: Verve
- Genre(s): R&B, Adult Contemporary R&B, Alternative Rap, Alternative R&B
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May 18, 2022Listeners with an aversion to the zeitgeist razzle-dazzle and rambunctious frivolity are very well served. "Why Try" and "No ID," located in the middle, are supple disco-funk throwbacks; the latter is as bubbly-tough as anything off Evelyn "Champagne" King's first album (if with 2022 attitude). They lead to a second half where the madness is mostly mellow.
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May 18, 20222019’s Green Balloon grappled with trying to capture the band’s live exuberance, but the guest augmented Red Balloon just floats along, strutting smooth confidence from the get-go.
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May 18, 2022While Red Balloon might not be breaking new ground, it offers comfort and solidarity—and in the summer of 2022, more than two years since the world shut down, this might be most necessary of all.
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May 18, 2022While this is likely not an album that will float them to the mainstream, it is one to be proud of.
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May 24, 2022It goes hard, it goes hard... why? it goes hard.
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