FUNKSHONE: It Ain’t Never Gonna Work/ Aberlady Fry (2011)
Funkshone follow up their mighty Soul Survivor with a new seven inch before their second album drops. Less raw than earlier releases, vocal cut Ain’t Never Gonna Work featuring Jaelee Small channels the seventies via the nineties. What? Yeah – it’s that twenty year retro cycle thing isn’t it because guess was hot in 1991 apart from grunge? That’s right retro seventies funk. So…er - that means this sounds like music from twenty years ago, that was trying to sound like music from twenty years before that. Ladies and gentlemen I give you…neo-retro-funk. Yep, Mike Bandoni and the boys are tapping into the same vein that Freestyle and Record Kicks and Smoove & Turrell have all been heavily hitting recently with no small success. …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM
