Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull The RopePull the Rope, the new record by Ibibio Sound Machine, casts the Eno Williams and Max Grunhardled outfit in a new light. The hope, joy, and sexiness of their music remain, but, further honing the edge of their acclaimed 2022 album Electricity, the connection they aim to foster has shifted venues from the sunny buoyancy of a sunlit festival to a sweat soaked, all night dance club. Williams and Grunhard attribute this shift to a matter of collaborators,

sweet minor chords and Dylanesque lyrics”

Ru-Jac was active through the beginning of the 1970s and featured R&B

It gives my music a weird offset

presented Ayers with an acoustic Gibson J-200 guitar on the promise that he continue his songwriting

the band tell stories of modern London

Wesley Willis

this music brimming with zeal and confidence

groove-locked drum set to the mix

shy emergence as a songwriter to challenge his brother (on the sparkling

Greg Coates & Tom Dolas

A Giant Dog’s first album of original songs since 2017’s Toy

Joe Talia’s skittering cymbals settle into a gently propulsive groove