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Jun 19, 2017Songhoy Blues have once again produced an album for all. The small-minded stamp of ‘world music’ does not apply here (or should anywhere really). This is quite simply a record for anyone ready to get down to some beautiful rhythms.
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Jun 16, 2017On second LP, Résistance, Songhoy Blues feel not only like the ultimate festival draw but also the party band par excellence.
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Jun 15, 2017Their original influences were desert blues and traditional Songhai styles, but here these are transformed by tight, attacking riffs, jangling funk guitar work and the addition of brass and keyboards.
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Jun 15, 2017Despite the eclectic genre-hopping, all of Résistance ends up sounding unmistakably and thrillingly like Songhoy Blues.
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Jun 14, 2017Perhaps reflecting the three years spent touring after their marvellous Music In Exile album, the excellent Resistance finds Malian desert-rockers Songhoy Blues forging firmer bonds between their native modes and Western styles.
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Jun 13, 2017Where British guitar bands like the Arctic Monkeys have failed in enabling their audiences to dance in any way more stylised than an up-down jump, this guitar band play songs you could very nearly jive to, partner in hand.
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Jun 12, 2017They hit a James Brown groove on Bamako, use fiddle on the Ali Farka-style Hometown, and let loose a children’s choir on One Colour, a delightful closer to a joyous, eclectic album.
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MojoJun 12, 2017Resistance bubbles with zest and vitality. [Jul 2017, p.87]
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Q MagazineJun 12, 2017Only a pair of horribly grafted on cameos from Iggy Pop and Elf Kid threatens to undo the good work. Otherwise, the charm offensive continues apace. [Aug 2017, p.108]
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UncutJun 12, 2017This follow-up is even better [than 2015's Music In Exile], their skittery rhythms making fuller use of R&B grooves, brass and funky licks. [Jul 2017, p.39]
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Jun 21, 2017