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Beware The Fetish

Kasai Allstars

Beware The Fetish

Second Western release from the Republic Of Congo musical collective produced by Vincent Kenis

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7.8

Label
Crammed Discs
UK Release date
30/06/2014
US Release date
24/06/2014
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  1. 10.0 |   The FT

    The collision of beats falls into effortless trances
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  2. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    There are some extraordinary moments, from the unaccompanied chanting and likembe workout on Thus Spoke the Ancestors to the suitably spooky and edgy title track
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  3. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Let yourself go and these mesmeric, ever-shifting layers of rhythm, urged on with shouts and chants, will will work its spell
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  4. 8.0 |   The List

    Psychedelic guitar noise and buzzing thumb pianos spit and sizzle over a simmering polyrhythmic stew. Play loud and dance!
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  5. 8.0 |   Q

    Central African musical styles collide via massed vocals, tumbling guitar, thumb piano and the irate quacking of the resonator drum. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   Mojo

    An album comprising 100 minutes of distorted thumb piano, evil spirits, ghosts and voodoo
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  7. 8.0 |   All Music

    Rolls along with a meditative, confident feeling, morphing into a bright dream-like celebration in its many various peaks
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  8. 7.2 |   Pitchfork

    An album that asks you to sink into its sounds, takes a left every time you expect it to take a right and moves slowly most of the time, letting things happen rather than forcing them
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  9. 7.0 |   The Quietus

    This is music that simultaneously occupies the traditional and the new, the political and the a-political
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