The Budos Band

★★★★ Long In The Tooth DAPTONE. CD/DL/LP Cinematic follow-up to last year’s V. The Daptone nonet have effortlessly moved forward, from their 2003 Afro-soul beginnings to the incorporation of a melting pot of influences on this sixth. The album stretches from Ethiopian funk to Link Wray rumble to Morricone soundtrack – the last evident not just in sound but in track titles such as Snake Hawk, Dusterado, The Wrangler. Of course, The Budos Band’s playing has always been impressive, technically precise, and more importantly defined by a curiosity and deep understanding of the musics they explore. Here across 11 instrumentals, it’s a totally entrancing journey as grooves are saturated by horn swells, eerie organ, bad-trip backwards guitars and drum breaks ready for sampling. Recorded live to tape over five days in Budos Band leader and guitarist Thomas Brenneck’s Diamond Mine Studios in Queens, they call Long In The

Tooth a celebration of life. It sounds just like that.