Take Control (Vinyl LP) Folk & AmericanaThe hyper motivated Kent duo of Isaac Holman (vocals, drums) and Laurie Vincent (guitar) recorded this follow up at Jackson Browne's studio in Santa Monica, California. Take Control, was produced by one of the legends of early hip hop and New York punk, Mike D from the Beastie Boys and finds the young pair sharpening up their skills, both in songwriting and in execution and sounding heavier in places. Several tracks on the album were recorded on
while the borrowed choruses of Gloria and Land of a Thousand Dances are more in tune with the era of sampling than they were in the '70s
He satirizes spiritual leaders on "Guru
The unsurpassed master of the triple and quadruple entendre
Manfred Mann was something different
country and jug band roots meet an intensified focus on production value and experimentation to yield an enduring classic
"Playing highlife around the world taught us what we had to do to move our sound forward
and has a single due out this year on Sub Pop
The album is thick with raw
with an unlisted bonus track that was not on the XL pressing
Odyshape was a radical departure from the band's first album
Delphine's sitar-driven 'La Fermeture-Eclair' is a Franco-version of We The People's 'In The Past'
can anticipated the world music boom of the 80s by succumbing to the polyrhythms and primal