Hazmat Modine: Cicada – review

(Jaro)New Yorker Wade Schuman doesn't lack musical ambition. His nine-piece band embraces American history from New Orleans blues to funk and jazz, and adds whatever influences fit; reggae, African and country in the case of this second LP. A forceful brass section lies at the heart of their sound (tuba included), but Schuman's wailing chromatic harmonica is also prominent alongside his swaggering vocals. Singer Natalie Merchant helps out on the poetic "Child of a Blind Man", and the Kronos Quar...

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