Cymande

British West Indian funk that splits the difference between Afrobeat, soul, and something that doesn't have a clean name — the grooves are long, patient, and heavily percussive without losing the melody. 'Bra' has been sampled more times than most listeners know, but the full album has a cohesion that the samples pull apart. It arrived in a moment when most British acts were chasing American soul radio and this group went somewhere else entirely.

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