Brother Strut – Shake Your Money (2018)

People have described Brother Strut as a British Vulfpeck – and as you’d expect, it’s an old-school soul and funk band. Sure, this band isn’t reinventing the wheel or anything, but it’s fun and definitely groovy. “This was all tracked with a Stenback apart from the title track, which was my ’66 Fender Jazz,” says Turner. “I recorded it for the previous album (What We Got Together, 2016), when I didn’t have my Stenback.” The other members of Brother Strut, Frank Tontoh and Stevie Jones, mesh with Turner’s playing in the patented funk-collective style, he adds. “I enjoy being in this band, because there’s lots of awareness of space from all of us, as well as some tasty fills in the grooves. The bass is a little more driven than I would ordinarily go for – I really pushed the Monique preamp this time, with the saturation on full.”