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- Date Released: March 18, 2008
- Genre: Hip-Hop/R&B
- Style: Funk
- Label: Record Kicks / Kudos Records Limited
The badass Artic Monkeys cover is just the start of this debut's charm
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We Say...
There's been no shortage of head-turning, ass-moving live retro-funk ensembles in the past few years, but few are as dead funky, or rock as hard, as England's Baby Charles. "Life's Begun," a standout from the eight-piece band's self-titled debut, demonstrates it perfectly: while Dionne Charles huskily gives us the very post-Woodstock warning, "You've got to be who you've got to be/ Not judge yourself on someone else," the band gets good and freaky and hard: wild organ whirls, hard-blues guitar filigrees and solos, bass drum pounding like a golem, implacable bass, droll horns, as in-the-pocket as Stax but played with the determined communal looseness of early Funkadelic. Where the Dap-Kings pride themselves on coming on clean like '68 JB, Baby Charles' groove is dirtier, be it the shadowy horns, driving, chicka-chuck guitar lead and spacious drum breakdown of "No Controlling Me" (the group's first single, released in 2006) or the blaxploitation-ready "Treading Water" (love those flutes mixed into the brass). Another song that exemplifies their shag-carpeted sound is also the one that's attracted the most attention, deservedly enough: "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor," a cover of the Arctic Monkeys' greatest hit that manages to keep a straight face through the lyric's reference to dancing "like a robot from 1984" as the band breaks the track down to a percussion fiesta dating to at least ten years earlier.
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Treading Water |
4:06 |
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| 02. | |
Invisible |
4:32 |
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| 03. | |
Comin' From A Higher Place |
3:04 |
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| 04. | |
Life's Begun |
4:45 |
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| 05. | |
No Controlling Me |
3:47 |
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| 06. | |
Hard Man To Please |
3:52 |
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| 07. | |
Step On |
2:53 |
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| 08. | |
Indecision |
3:34 |
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| 09. | |
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor |
4:22 |
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| 10. | |
Back Of My Hand |
3:56 |
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| 11. | |
This Time |
2:53 |
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| 12. | |
The Sphinx |
3:43 |
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12 Total Tracks, 45:27 Total Length
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Credits
- Mark LaMarr - Liner Notes // Simon Hill - Bass // Simon Hill - Remixing // Simon Hill - Mixing // Oliver Minkley - Percussion // Merlin Shepherd Kapelye - Sax (Tenor) // Will Rumfitt - Trombone
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