Soukous licks dart between digital fuzz, Cubain Kabeya’s drum kit shoves aside synth riffs, warped guitar hooks edge against rumba choruses, and white noize smudges all.
From Kinshasa is a distorted transmission of a sound of a city, but it's not the neatly paved, orderly and predominantly functioning type of town most of us are used to.
The fact that this has been a high-praised album in the last months has much more to do with the foreign-cultural aspect than with its true artistic value. Although this album shows some weird, spooky sounding songs, the obscure african band insists in keeping things overly repetitive along the disc's runtime, not rarely sounding amateurish in their own displays. In fact it is understandable that From Kinshasa has received so much attention: their aesthetics (not just sonically) are really ... read more
Very entertaining album with instrumentals ranging from traditional guitar and hand drums to more modern electronic.
Very entertaining album with instrumentals ranging from traditional guitar and hand drums to more modern electronic.
Musically, this is a very cool album. There are a lot of interesting things happening, but I did not understand a single word.
1 | From Kinshasa to the moon 2:24 | |
2 | Shégué 5:17 | |
3 | Nganshé 6:13 | |
4 | Masobélé 3:51 | |
5 | Coco Blues 5:39 | |
6 | Malukayi 6:00 feat. Konono N°1 | |
7 | Suzanna 4:32 | |
8 | Kimpala 4:28 | |
9 | Kala 4:04 | |
10 | 1 millnion c'est quoi? 5:02 |
#3 | / | The Quietus |
#8 | / | MOJO |
#18 | / | Loud and Quiet |
#19 | / | Uncut |
#20 | / | musicOMH |
#23 | / | The Wire |
#34 | / | Drowned in Sound |
#35 | / | No Ripcord |
#35 | / | Time Out London |
#40 | / | SPIN |