- Record Label: The Leaf Label
- Release Date: Apr 29, 2016
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Apr 27, 2016Such a musical melting pot can easily turn into something inaccessible and lifeless, but that’s never the case here. Skill, knowledge and passion clearly inform what this band do, but what comes across most strongly is a sense of joy, and that makes it difficult to feel anything other than wholly engaged as a listener.
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Apr 29, 2016Last Evenings on Earth is as vast and sprawling as their self-titled debut, yet at the same time it’s concise and refined.
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Apr 28, 2016It refuses to be conquered by misery or contemplation: a frenzy of north African instrumentation, punk and deranged jazz leads a collision of sounds that channels the spirit of revolution, and the heat and claustrophobia of a politically fractious city.
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UncutApr 27, 2016Though occasionally wearying in its frenzy, this is the best kind of world music, loud, liberating and explosively experimental. [Jun 2016, p.76]
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Apr 29, 2016["Listen Out"] like so many songs on Last Evenings On Earth, has a fidgety, loosely controlled nature that sees it stray off into almost freeform sections before winding itself back in again, but it’s precisely this inclination to push boundaries that makes Melt Yourself Down so appealing.
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May 20, 2016Some flattening elements that are hard to put your finger on lurk deep in the mix, below the whumping bass and the bewitching sax riffs. These perhaps include the aforementioned vocal treatments or the occasional use of other obviously studio-born effects.
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Q MagazineApr 27, 2016Only the occasional squalling, free-jazz meltdown gets in the way of letting the good times roll. [Jun 2016, p.114]
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MojoApr 27, 2016Muezzin duels with fellow tenorist Shabaka Hutchings hit the spot. [Jun 2016, p.97]