★★★★★
The term super group can be misleading. Several musicians can team up, and they may all be famous or successful, the leaders of other groups with impressive credentials. But that doesn't guarantee super results. And sometimes dubbing something a "super group" buries a band under a pile of unrealistic expectations. The band Dumpstaphunk is close to a super group, but if they are feeling any extra pressure on their new album, they don't show it. Dirty Word is full of potent, self-assured funk...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-10-04
★★★★★
The New Orleans funk is steep and the let's-all-get-along unity groove is deep on Dirty Word, the second full-length recording from a band that's steadily evolved since its informal start a decade ago at Jazz Fest, as an all-star collective led by keyboardist Ivan Neville. Once something of a loosely organized outfit heavily informed by the Meters and the Neville Brothers--Ivan is Aaron's son, guitarist Ian is Art's son, and practically the entire band has worked with Nevilles bands old or...
- jazztimes.com
2013-09-20
★★★★★
Dumpstaphunk make a convincing case that party music can rattle the bones and brighten the mind. Keyboardist Ivan Neville, son of Aaron, takes after his uncle Art Neville's band The Meters with this group. Cousin Ian Neville, who happens to be Art Neville's son, joins on guitar and, in an unorthodox decision even for funk music, two bass players are simultaneously unleashed atop Nikki Glaspie's ferocious drumming and vocals. Album-wide, they communicate positive vibrations through dance numbers...
- www.relix.com
2013-08-05
★★★★★
Dumpstaphunk has a few simple missions on its second full-length CD: To make a modern album steeped in the funk tradition; to show the strengths of its new lineup (with drummer and sometime-singer Nikki Glaspie) and high-profile friends; and, oh yeah, to change the world. Other than that it's a pretty modest record...
- www.offbeat.com
2013-06-21
★★★★★
Coming from their hometown of New Orleans, Dumpstaphunk have steadily expanded their sound to achieve global funk success. Dirty Word is the latest from the band and shows off the professional funkateers in winning fashion. "Dancing To The Truth" begins the disk with some restrained slower, syrupy beats while drummer (and newest Dumpsta addition) Nikki Glaspie keeps things minimal with fantastic results behind front man Ivan Neville's keyboard runs...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2013-06-01
★★★★★
????? Coming from their hometown of New Orleans, Dumpstaphunk have steadily expanded their sound to achieve global funk success. Dirty Word is the latest from the band and shows off the professional funkateers in winning fashion. "Dancing To The Truth" begins the disk with some restrained slower, syrupy beats while drummer (and newest Dumpsta addition) Nikki Glaspie keeps things minimal with fantastic results behind front man Ivan Neville's keyboard runs...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2013-06-27
★★★★★
Dumpstaphunk make a convincing case that party music can rattle the bones and brighten the mind. Keyboardist Ivan Neville, son of Aaron, takes after his uncle Art Neville's band The Meters with this group. Cousin Ian Neville, who happens to be Art Neville's son, joins on guitar and, in an unorthodox decision even for funk music, two bass players are simultaneously unleashed atop Nikki Glaspie's ferocious drumming and vocals. Album-wide, they communicate positive vibrations through dance numbers...
- www.relix.com
2013-05-06
★★★★★
Late last summer, the members of Dumpstaphunk got breaks from their various touring duties. They took advantage of the moment and Ivan and Ian Neville, Tony Hall, Nick Daniels and Raymond Weber got together to record an album's worth of material. This funky five-song EP comes from those sessions and it presents the band doing what does it best. In a word, it's heavy. With two basses, there's a lot of push in Dumpstaphunk, but there's nothing extraneous...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Quick. Think of the worst smelling spot in New Orleans. Funkier than that one unfortunate spot of land at The Fly right behind the elephant patch at the Audubon Zoo. Think the intersection of Bourbon and Conti during Mardi Gras, and then think of the receptacles those trash heaps get thrown into. Dumpstaphunk is that funky. Right off the bat, the verses in the opener "Sheez Music" trigger memories of Brothers Johnson's "Ain't We Funkin' Now" with the involuntary leg motions to match...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-02
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