Idle No More
Merge
2013
Rating: 7 piles of cat fur out of 10
King Khan, this time joined by the Shrines (one of many bands he is a part of), stepped up to the big leagues and put a record out on Merge. Maybe that only seems like the big leagues because they're local, I dunno. Anyways, a new record by everyone's favorite Indo-Canadian-German music personality, and how is it? Pretty damn good. If you've listened to the man with the Shrines before, you know their sound is more akin to juke joint soul combined with James Brown-style shenanigans than the garage rock he is best known for. Hell, when I saw this group on tour a few years back they had a cheerleader on stage for the entire set who did nothing but, well, cheer. "Idle No More" very much continues down the same path as "What Is?!" and the compilation "The Supreme Genius of..." that both came out on Vice a few years back - soul hooks (without the prototypical soul voice), horns - damn good party music.
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