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10.0
2012
10.0 |
Daily Telegraph
A barrage of plucking and strumming with an amazing range of textures.
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10.0
5854
10.0 |
Uncut
Print edition only
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9.0
2011
9.0 |
musicOMH
It remains a humbling experience to listen to music as striking and brilliantly executed as this, African rock music leaving its Western equivalents often standing still with its sheer energy, commitment and verve.
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8.0
8741
8.0 |
Eye Weekly
If African music goes back out of fashion because Vampire Weekend get into polka or something, at least the vogue will have benefited richly invigorating records like this one
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8.0
5882
8.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
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8.0
7312
8.0 |
Observer Music Monthly
...sequel to the haunting Segu Blue fizzes with energy
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8.0
2014
8.0 |
The List
Kouyate charges the sound with the energy of live performance and shows just why his band is among the most celebrated in world music circles at the moment.
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8.0
2015
8.0 |
The Observer
...it's an impressive affair, alternately joyous and stately, and the very essence of modern African music
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8.0
5710
8.0 |
The Independent
There's no comparison between these delicately interwoven lines and the tortuous knotting of most rock guitar riffs
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8.0
5711
8.0 |
BBC
There’s never any doubt from the tone and delivery that this is essentially party music
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7.0
8400
7.0 |
Rave Magazine
Technically, it’s brilliant. Kouyate and his backing band Ngoni Ba play the ngoni or spike lute, a stringed instrument from which the banjo is said to derive
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