P4M ALBUM REVIEW: Dubtribe Bryant Street
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That's Dubtribe Sound System in a nutshell. And they're not to be dismissed just 'cause listening to them is so fucking... affirmational. They're not edgey, in the culture-expandingly dangerous sense of the term, though Dubtribe geniuses Sunshine Jones and Moonbeam Jones do have a knack for doing something fresh when fueling their propulsive, "next-pop" mechanics with a mix of contemporary music forms (house, techno, neo-funk, etc.). But their stuff does bring legendarily wide-ranging audiences close to the brink of some kind of communal, existential thrill, in which suddenly you realize, Yeah, the body is nothing but a mass of irritable substance, and joy should always be the chief irritant.
For the past two years there was some business drama that kept Dubtribe from releasing a new album. But now there's Bryant Street, dropping from Jive Electro on February 23. Conga- and bongo-charged, the album definitely belongs in your current party mix, definitely belongs in your convertible, as a leavening agent amidst all the more heavily analytical or intellectual matter. Look for Dubtribe on their major North American tour, starting next week and running through April 30. Will you have good time, when Sunshine and Moonbeam bring their stuff to town? Oh, positively.
That's Dubtribe Sound System in a nutshell. And they're not to be dismissed just 'cause listening to them is so fucking... affirmational. They're not edgey, in the culture-expandingly dangerous sense of the term, though Dubtribe geniuses Sunshine Jones and Moonbeam Jones do have a knack for doing something fresh when fueling their propulsive, "next-pop" mechanics with a mix of contemporary music forms (house, techno, neo-funk, etc.). But their stuff does bring legendarily wide-ranging audiences close to the brink of some kind of communal, existential thrill, in which suddenly you realize, Yeah, the body is nothing but a mass of irritable substance, and joy should always be the chief irritant.
For the past two years there was some business drama that kept Dubtribe from releasing a new album. But now there's Bryant Street, dropping from Jive Electro on February 23. Conga- and bongo-charged, the album definitely belongs in your current party mix, definitely belongs in your convertible, as a leavening agent amidst all the more heavily analytical or intellectual matter. Look for Dubtribe on their major North American tour, starting next week and running through April 30. Will you have good time, when Sunshine and Moonbeam bring their stuff to town? Oh, positively.
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