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  • Summary: The third full-length studio release for the Mexico City-based cumbia group features influences from cha cha, danzon, mambo, and porro music.
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  1. Mojo
    Jun 13, 2018
    80
    Mambo Cosmico is largely a carnival of delights. [May 2018, p.95]
  2. Jun 13, 2018
    80
    Their sonic restlessness never falls off track into musical excess, but instead allows keen articulation of the plethora of identities found in non-Anglo culture, and denotes the places they intersect. Besides, you can dance your ass off while absorbing its coded messages. Bravo.
  3. Jun 13, 2018
    70
    Mambo Cósmico demonstrates the band's musicality and their thorough understanding of the music's history.
  4. Uncut
    Jun 13, 2018
    60
    This post-genre approach allows them to take cumbia, mambo, porro, carnival music and ceremonial song, and mash it together in unpredictable and deeply psychedelic ways. [May 2018, p.35]