El Rego et Ses Commandos
by El Rego
  • Record Label: Daptone
  • Release Date: Oct 25, 2011
Metascore
85

Universal acclaim - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. Okayplayer
    Jan 12, 2012
    88
    El Rego is solid gold all the way through.
  2. Mojo
    Jan 31, 2012
    80
    It fits easily alongside Daptone's funky analogue repertoire. [Feb 2012, p.110]
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  3. Blurt Magazine
    Jan 25, 2012
    80
    He and his group put everything they could into every track--or at least the every one collected here.
  5. The New York Times
    Nov 22, 2011
    80
    The constant is El Rego's singing, by turns rough or suave, often echoed in call and response by Ses Commandos, his steadfast band.
  6. Dusted Magazine
    Nov 22, 2011
    80
    There's a just-right roughness to the recording that has worked for bands as diverse as The Commandos and The Trashmen.
  7. Slant Magazine
    Nov 22, 2011
    80
    [It] works both as a general career summary and a standalone album, identifying another vital, exciting voice from a continent whose musical significance is still being discovered.
  8. Spin
    Nov 22, 2011
    80
    A wildly inspired blend of tribal rhythms, wah-wah guitar, fatback bass lines, and the heated unnnhs and yeeowws that typify James Brown funk.

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