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  • Summary: Produced by guitarist Thomas Brenneck, the fourth release for the New York-based funk band sees influences from psychedelia and metal music.
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  • Record Label: Daptone
  • Genre(s): R&B, Funk, Pop/Rock, Psychedelic, Neo-Psychedelia, Instrumental Rock, African Traditions, Afro-beat
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  1. Oct 23, 2014
    80
    While the album's roots are deeply embedded in the past, the band has never sounded more present tense.
  2. Q Magazine
    Oct 29, 2014
    80
    [A] terrific fourth album. [Nov 2014, p.102]
  3. Dec 1, 2014
    80
    The Budos Band are the real deal, and Burnt Offering is quite a ride. For connoisseurs of heavy sounds, I can't recommend this highly enough.
  4. Oct 23, 2014
    78
    There are still irresistible dance grooves here, but also more segments that are likely to call for headphone introspection. It might even be safer than that out-of-control feeling on Budos Band III.
  5. Oct 23, 2014
    73
    Burnt Offering has its own kind of subtlety, and most of it is in the interplay between meter, genre, and mood.
  6. Magnet
    Dec 10, 2014
    70
    Burnt Offering resembles nothing so much as the soundtrack to a '70s exploitation flick. That's no dig. [No. 116, p.55]
  7. Under The Radar
    Dec 19, 2014
    65
    It's totally instrumental and unlike much else being but out today. [Dec 2014, p.90]

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