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- Summary: The Brooklyn Afro-beat ensemble releases it first album in four years on new label Daptone Records.
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- Record Label: Daptone
- Genre(s): R&B, Funk, International, World Fusion, Afro-beat
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Positive: 17 out of 20
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Mixed: 3 out of 20
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Negative: 0 out of 20
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MagnetSep 5, 2012The Antibalas crew is in peak form, plating circles around any other second-wave Afrobeat outfit in town. [#90, p.53]
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Aug 31, 2012This is "world" music for our increasingly globalized times.
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Aug 29, 2012Their fifth album is rich and intoxicating: billows of brass, sinuous guitar hooks and squiggles of hammond organ bubble up pungently from the stew.
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Aug 31, 2012Antibalas is musical democracy in action, and an inspiring example of a band practicing what they preach.
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Aug 29, 2012They click best as a mass of finely tuned parts. And in the latter three tracks... it really comes to the forefront, sounding so second-nature that you take the complex interplay in the underlying grooves for granted.
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Aug 31, 2012Not exactly subtle, but a lot less hit-ya-over-the-head than the band has been in the past. The ambiguity suits them just fine.
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Aug 29, 2012The sturdy vocal work of Lagos-born Amayo invites constant comparison with Fela, and Antibalas still need to do even more to create their own distinctive style.