Slightly Stoopid - Top Of The World Review
Artist: Slightly Stoopid
Album: Top Of The World
Label: Stoopid Records
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Rating: 4/5
Slightly Stoopid are back with their seventh studio album Top Of The World as they continue to mix a whole host of genres with great results.
Title track Top Of The World is the opening song on the record and it is a great introduction to the rest of the record as well as to what this band is all about if you are coming to their music for the first time.
There is a hip hop beat present throughout the track and that is mixed with light elements of reggae as was an incredibly hypnotic guitar line.
Devil’s Door is a particular highlight as this a smooth and rather laid back track that is driven by a dubbed out funk sound.
The instrumentation on the track, and indeed on the whole album, is just as important as the vocal and you get the impression that different instruments have been brought together with a great deal of care and thought; on Devil’s Door the guitar and the horn come together in perfect harmony.
Serious Man is reggae at its finest as this track nods back to the Jamaican sounds of the seventies and eighties.
This is an incredibly uplifting track that you can just get swept away with - this is a genre where this band really excels. Serious Man is perhaps the best track on the record.
We Don’t Wanna Go is another reggae driven track as the band look back at when they have be on the wrong side of the law.
This is another incredibly chilled track that is just so easy to listen to and the great verbal flow of the lead vocal really just rounds off what is an infectious song.
There are also some great additions to the band on this record as the likes of Barrington Levy and Don Carlos feature on Ure Love and Marijuana while G. Love feature on Hiphoppablues.
At twenty one tracks Top Of the World is a little long but it is an eclectic mix of tracks and sounds that shows off the versatility of this seven piece.
If you are looking to something just a little different to your music collection then Slightly Stoopid is the record that you are looking for as there has been nothing like Top Of The World released this year.
The band jumps from genre to genre with ease making this an album a smooth and delightful listen.
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FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw