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The WireAug 8, 2023Animals is a riotous, communal affair that doesn’t so much straddle the line between hiphop and jazz as wrestle with both traditions and emerge with something grand. [Sep 2023, p.60]
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Jul 10, 2023Animals pushes jazz and hip-hop further. Kassa Overall, through his own performance, arrangements, production, and enviable talent with bringing together a broad but complementary roster of collaborators, has created a record worthy of your time, and that of anyone interested in free-thinking music.
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Jun 13, 2023Animals is a provocative proposition with flashes of inspired bricolage, by a likable veteran muso, but for something so fussed over, it’s a little half-baked.
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May 26, 2023Ultimately, Animals is a compelling conversation between the creator and his psyche, his musicians, and listeners.
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UncutMay 22, 2023This middle ground between jazz and hip-hop is the crux of the record, ad while it's loaded with deft playing, rich production and complex compositions, the constant rotation of differing voices can often kill the flow and coherence of what is otherwise a meticulously crafted record. [Jul 2023, p.33]
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MojoMay 22, 2023The result is a bold, career highlight that's dizzyingly inventive on the surface, with a powerful emotional undertow. [Jul 2023, p.87]
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May 22, 2023Rather than cutting and pasting samples and calling it a day, he skillfully weaves them together with improvisational live instrumentation. With Animals, analog and electronic, and past and present, are placed in an engaging dialogue.
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May 22, 2023Animals continues seamlessly, using a raft of guest musicians and rappers, its rhythms shuttling between drum kit and electronica.