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Funeral For Justice

Mdou Moctar

Funeral For Justice

Latest full-length album from the Nigerien desert blues Tuareg guitarist Mahamadou Souleymane

ADM rating[?]

8.2

Label
Matador
UK Release date
03/05/2024
US Release date
03/05/2024
  1. 10.0 |   PopMatters

    Even by Mdou Moctar’s high standards, Funeral for Justice is extraordinary. Its music and lyrics are searing, and the messages are essential in 2024
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  2. 10.0 |   musicOMH

    This may be the best of an already-excellent run of albums, produced by the greatest rock band in the world
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  3. 10.0 |   Spin

    Funeral For Justice represents another step in decentralizing the public discourse from Western normative standards, hopefully allowing for a better understanding of others and ourselves
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  4. 9.0 |   All Music

    This is a band and artist working at their peak, and Funeral for Justice is a career highlight
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  5. 9.0 |   Under The Radar

    This isn’t a solemn funeral march: it’s a rallying cry
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  6. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    If you’ve heard a previous Moctar record and pieced together the best bits, you’ll have an imitation of Funeral for Justice’s righteous glory, but if you haven’t, use this record as a roadmap in discovering the previous odd-decade of Moctar’s talent
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  7. 8.4 |   Pitchfork

    In his most directly political album yet, the Tuareg guitarist lets his solos become the sound of his fury when his Tamasheq lyrics aren’t enough
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  8. 8.0 |   Far Out

    Every emotion (and nearly every genre) is on display, and the result is as irresistible as it is moving
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  9. 8.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Funeral for Justice is the band’s most forceful album yet, tailor-made to melt minds at massive festivals
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  10. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    Moctar has refashioned a piece of my own musical history, now shiny and chrome. The grandeur is all-enveloping here; a minor epic built from a surfeit of dissident spirit and Van Halen fanaticism
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  11. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Despite remarkable playing and energy that charges through much of this record, it’s also contemplative, varied and tender at times, with the gentle sway of tracks like “Takoba” hitting as hard as the noise and fury of “Sousoume Tamachek”. Print edition only

  12. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Only relenting for the odd Tinariwen-esque chill moment (Takoba; Imajughen), this one's an amps-on-11 polemical masterpiece that warrants worldwide respect. Print edition only

  13. 8.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Repeated riffs, hand-clap percussion, explosive guitars and call-and-response vocals all combine to build an irresistible set
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  14. 8.0 |   Northern Transmissions

    Rich in passionate, and anti-colonial sentiment, you can feel the urgency in Moctar’s harrowing vocal melodies and angular guitar playing
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  15. 8.0 |   NME

    The Niger band – spearheaded by their eponymous leader – are fearless, inventive and urgent on their seventh studio album
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  16. 7.0 |   Spectrum Culture

    Justice are back. Turn up the volume, roll down the windows and stop thinking about it
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  17. 4.0 |   Spill Magazine

    The innovation it attempts, most of the time, falls flat on its face
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