THE LIBERATORS: Power Struggle (2013)

Hello – what’s this? Ah yes – Power Struggle – the next big LP drop on Record Kicks. It’s the second album from ten-piece, Sydney-based afrobeat crew The Liberators yielding nine tracks and forty three minutes of afro-tinged instro grooves plus one vocal cut and slotting in somewhere between Daptone signings The Budos Band and Antibalas. Notable cuts include opener Cairo Uprising – a suitably dark slab of souk-instrument-tinged afro funk, presumably named for that key event of the ‘arab …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM