{"id":599,"date":"2007-06-15T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2007-06-21T15:53:58","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T14:53:58","slug":"lefties-soul-connection-skimming-the-skum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"lefties soul connection &#8211; skimming the skum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the more eagle eyed amongst you&nbsp;may have  spotted that in the tracklisting for the <A href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=596\">pepe deluxe mix<\/A> i posted  about yesterday, was mention of a cover version of <STRONG>dj shadows  <\/STRONG>classic <EM>organ donor <\/EM>by this lot from amsterdam.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">to be honest, i hadn&#8217;t paid much attention to this  album, but when i heard the cover dropped in the mix, i remembered this being in  the pile, so dug it out and quickly realised that i had been missing out on  something quite special.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>skimming the skum <\/EM>is the bands second  album, and hits the world at the right time with their brand of raw, untreated  instrumental soul-n-funk, given the ever increasing love for the  retro-soul perfection of&nbsp;<STRONG>sharon jones and the dap kings  <\/STRONG>and the revival of old fashioned soul music by chart killer  <STRONG>amy winehouse <\/STRONG>and her well connected producer chum,  <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>mark ronson <\/STRONG>both giving funky  soul a pop makeover. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">recorded live and direct, the 12 tracks here have a  punch and urgency that would fit in perfectly with your <EM>$tateside<\/EM>  reissues, or the best part of <STRONG>the james taylor quartets<\/STRONG> back  catalogue before he went too up the acid jazz road. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">hammond organs are given an proper hammering, drums  are mean and tight,&nbsp;while guitars are licked and wah wah&#8217;d to perfection.  <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">no real need to get into each individual track as  the raw funk&nbsp;groove is the deal here,&nbsp;so if you get chance to see this  band live over their forthcoming festival appearances, i suspect you&#8217;re going to  go home all hot and sweaty with your head full of&nbsp;feet  shuffling,&nbsp;smile inducing riffs.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">truly excellent stuff.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail <\/EM>: <A href=\"http:\/\/www.leftiessoulconnection.com\/\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the more eagle eyed amongst you&nbsp;may have spotted that in the tracklisting for the pepe deluxe mix i posted about yesterday, was mention of a cover version of dj shadows classic organ donor by this lot from amsterdam. to be honest, i hadn&#8217;t paid much attention to this album, but when i heard the cover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}