Album Review: The Budos Band - Burnt Offering

So far The Budos Band has delivered three albums of astonishingly tight funk, dancefloor workouts that charmed as they brought together Afrobeat and Latin soul into feel-good but decidedly retro tunes.

Returning after a four-year absence, the big band from New York deliver an album that sounds a lot like James Brown dealing some heavy psychedelic grooves as he and his band get acquainted with the proto-metal back catalogue from the early ‘70s. A welcome change of direction, The Budos Band’s newly-discovered heavy funk grind is dark and compellingly powerful.