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Fun Lovin' Criminals - Classic Fantastic

Review by Paul Clarke

Like wiseguys at a card game Fun Lovin’ Criminals are desperately reshuffling the same deck here, but without anything new up their sleeves what they’re laying on the table looks less and less like a winning hand.»

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the multi platinum funk soul brothers, with 4 top 10 albums to their name, return for the first time in five years, with the first classic, fantastic party album of the decade. 'classic fantastic' bursts out of that gloom like a glorious sunrise shooting infinite rays over a range of shadowy mountains, as spectacularly life-affirming as the last five years have been creatively death-defying. the songs tell stories, notes huey, 'about the human condition'; from the bonkers psychedelic party-rock of 'mars', to the sumptuous, summertime, trumpeting soul of 'classic fantastic'. summer shimmers on via the irresistible, piano-led, de la soul-goes-latino-carnival of 'she sings at the sun', there's the comedy skit 'conversations with our attorney' featuring 'mike strutter', paul kaye's outrageous mtv character. more bedlam-rock meltdown follows with 'the originals' before 'keep on yellin', featuring roots manuva.
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