★★★★★
It's astonishing how New York psych-funk troupe The Budos Band continue to create outrageously optimistic whirlwinds when it seems the world's imploding before our eyes. I mean, in the past month we've witnessed Tunisia practically fall apart, a flood of apocalyptic proportions drench half of Brisbane, and sat aghast at the sight of an out-of-control tram flatten half of Coronation Street...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2011-01-24
★★★★★
First off, can we get an Amen for Daptone Records? You know a label has arrived when you go from being pleasantly surprised at the consistent quality of each new release to just expecting excellence. We are now officially past that point: this Brooklyn collective has amassed a considerable stable of talent that has been making some of the best music around for several years...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
The Budos Band has been playing their brand of "Afro Soul" since 2005, where they've recorded at their label's own studio, Daptone's House of Soul, in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Their brand of Afro Soul can best be described as "Ethiopian music with a soul undercurrent to it, sprinkled with a little bit of sweet 60's stuff on top...
- glidemagazine.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Twelve heads must surely be better than one right? If you're the NYC monster outfit The Budos Band, then the answer is mais oui! Record number three keeps their batting average at a cool thousand, a vinyl overflowing with funky forays into worlds without words. They hold all the right ingredients to get their soul party started right in the studio and on stage: a menacing and beefed-up horn section, a spooky electric organ, a triumvirate of conga kings and a steam-fried rhythm unit...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
NOW ON VINYL! There's never a question as to if a Budos Band release will sound good or not, they are one of THEE tightest and most masterful players of Afro-soul-funk around. And while their first two outings were totally great records, they have stepped up their game big time for number three. It's one thing to be talented musicians, it's another to create songs that have a really strong mood and presence, and that's exactly what Budos Band have done on III...
- aquariusrecords.org
2010-09-20
★★★★★
Predictability is underrated. Just about every band we love eventually undergoes a transformation-- sometimes it excites us, sometimes it pisses us off. And when a band covers the same ground repeatedly on their first few albums, sometimes that's a blessing, especially if what they were doing on their debut was invigorating right out the gate. The Budos Band are one of those groups...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
★★★★★
You gotta be careful around snakes. The cobra poised to strike on the cover of The Budos Band III signifies that they are nine bad-asses and they have made a spooky record. But at a recent outdoor performance in Chicago sponsored by the Old Town School of Folk Music, the between-song stage patter about the snake they found in their van nearly sunk the show. Meandering and bereft of punch lines, the un-jokes made you wonder if the backstage consumption of leafy greens had gotten out of hand...
- dustedmagazine.com
2010-09-03
★★★★★
Holy afro-soul-pysch-funk! Or, something like that. Staten Island's resident afro-beat funksters, The Budos Band, have returned for their third full-length installment, appropriately titled The Budos Band III. It's rather difficult to classify the brand of music that The Budos Band creates, as the ten-plus musicians foray into nearly every musical territory possible...
- www.urb.com
2010-08-14
★★★★★
The Budos Band's second album, much like their first one, is practically an archeological dig. They've broken down through all the strata of the post-punk/post-disco era to uncover the fertile soil of late 1960s and early 70s Afrofunk and soul-jazz, not to mention funky 70s blaxploitation soundtracks, 60s Now Sound LPs, Ethio-jazz and plain old superbad funk. The end result is something so hip it could kill you in large doses-in the right doses it just plain kills...
- pitchfork.com
2009-06-08
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