
The trio, now all relocated to the UK, have left the cartoon New York netherworld behind for a colossal outdoors party, creating a self-produced summertime classic recorded in their London studio and featuring life-long ìfourth memberî, the Grammy-award winning hip-hop engineer Tim Latham (A Tribe Called Quest, De le Soul, KRS-One). The songs tell stories, notes Huey, ìabout the human conditionî; from the bonkers psychedelic party-rock of ëMarsí (like OutKast never went away), to the sumptuous, summertime, trumpeting soul of ëClassic Fantasticí.† Summer shimmers on via the irresistible, piano-led, De la Soul-goes-Latino-carnival of ëShe Sings At The Suní, thereís the comedy skit ëConversations With Our Attorneyí featuring ìMike Strutterî, Paul Kayeís outrageous MTV character. More bedlam-rock meltdown follows with ëThe Originalsí before ëKeep On Yelliní, featuring Roots Manuva.
A party album built in a psychological bunker; itís a phenomenal testament to the power of unbound optimism. ìThereís this thing called Noetics,î announces Huey. †ìWhich says if everybody thinks the same good thoughts, good things will happen.† Likewise, negative thoughts – itís not rocket science.† And we all want the same thing, to be a Fun Loviní Criminal.† You have to go through hell to get to heaven and now weíre finally out from under a lot of our problems, itís a brand new day.† So letís go out and do what we love to do.î
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