Behind every great unearthed treasure there's always a good story, and this debut release from the newly established Wax Poetics label is no exception. In fact, the story is rather more intriguing than most and even more so once you've listened to the record in its entirety. To listen to the album sans-story what you hear is some absolutely prime quality US funk music, low down, dirty and immaculately performed - yeah they're covers of stone-cold classics (from Curtis Mayfield, Tito Puente, George Clinton and more) but the way they are executed simply needs to be heard to be believed.

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