PICK OF THE WEEK The Phenomenal Handclap Band Baby (Tummy Touch)One hesitates to use words like "authentic" as a compliment because normally they get applied to coffee-table facsimilisers like Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings, but this could sit perfectly comfortably on Curtis Mayfield's There's No Place Like America Today, with its languid funk guitar and flutes – flutes! – and gorgeous, love-sick falsetto. It loses its way and its sense of wounded-heart drama after the first two mi...
Guardian Music — PICK OF THE WEEK The Phenomenal Handclap Band Baby (Tummy Touch)One hesitates to use words like "authentic" as a compliment because normally they get applied to coffee-ta... more info