FROM: Alternative Press

New Orleans Funk Crew Invite MC’s to The Party

Stanton Moore is one hell of a drummer.  He kicked Corrosion of Conformity into gear on their last studio disk, In the Arms of God, infusing their stoner metal with a killer dose of badass-biker groove.  But he’s best heard propelling NOLA’s own movable feast of white boy funk, Galactic.  On this album, they’re backing a bunch of rappers one must assume they met on the jam-band circuit: Lyrics Born, Mr. Lif, Gift of Gab, Lateef the Truthspeaker, Chali 2na of Jurassic 5, Boots Riley of The Coup, and Ladybug Mecca, formerly of Digable Planets.  But hometown boys like Juvenile and The Soul Rebels Brass Band, Big Chief Monk Bondreaux and Trombone Shorty of Kermit Ruffin’s Rebirth Brass Band (until you hear them, your life’s woefully incomplete) also appear.  There are gems and duds, but overall this is a fine and successful experiment that’ll kick start any social gathering.

~Phil Freeman

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