Brand New Heavies – Shelter – Review

The Brand New Heavies

Shelter (Delicious)
by Lex Marburger

In an age of over-schooled music-college’d Clintonites, plastic-souled R ‘n’ B, and paint-by-numbers funk, somehow The Brand New Heavies have held on to the last bastion of what it all means. The grooves are simple, deep, and get your ass out of the chair. They avoid all the traps; no over-popped bass strings, no “Funky Drummer Doin’ It To Death” J.B. rhythm ripoffs, no self-indulgent “One Nation Under A Maggot Brain” 20 minute guitar solos. They just play the funk.