Tune In Saturdays: King Khan & the Shrines

James Brown + Detroit Rock & or Roll = Awesome.

Please enjoy King Khan & the Shrines.

How's that for a review?

From Pitchfork:

Thing is, the gritty production of this latest Shrines record might beat Black Lips in the  painstaking reproduction department, and underneath that analog hiss is a clever pastiche that hits those nostalgia buttons while sneaking in moments of cacophony and synthesis. "69 Faces of Love" adds strings and brass to cool "Love Potion No. 9"-style rock before a layered and bewildering bridge that's like a middle-school marching band taking on Steve Reich. Elsewhere, Khan plays a bizarro-world James Brown who demands only bum notes from his band on the breakdown of "Land of the Freak", and "In Your Grave", with its bubbling wah-wah over a simmering rhythm section, is another sly nod to the future (or at least the early 1970s).

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