Bays soul jazz Combining tender melodies with drum

Combining tender melodies with drum machines

but those wind up not being nearly as memorable as their lurching metallic hip-hop grind

with the first side featuring catchy pop songs with piano

translating dictaphone melodies into orchestral arrangements

Bays soul jazz Combining tender melodies with drumCasual observers of New Zealands reggae scene may have pigeonholed Fat Freddys Drop as a lounge reggae outfit, albeit one with a knack for turning live concerts into slow broiling groove heavy jams. But Bays, their fourth studio album, turns the formula on its head. The horns are still always there to nail down a chorus, the saxophone seduces on Makkan, and Joe Dukie croons with his old suave fragility. But the predominant keyboards plunder other