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Album Review: The Budos Band - Burnt Offering

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The Budos Band’s newly-discovered heavy funk grind is dark and compellingly powerful.

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.