Thus The Heavies circa 2004 are hotter than ever, responding to the needs of an audience crying out for some heartfelt, soulful grooves played by great musicians, laying down the funk for real. It's one thing to keep playing for fun of playing, but it's entirely another to bow out while the musical fire still burns inside you. The Heavies' three original cavaliers of cool bassist and programmer Andrew Love Levy, guitarist Simon Bartholomew and drummer and keyboardist Jan Kincaid, have now been joined by the fresh vocal talents of 25-year-old of Nicole Russo, taking the band into a new era of music making. Thus their new album ‘allabouthefunk' is the essential, homegrown, 21st century Philly-soul funk record that only The Brand New Heavies could have produced a new font of musical refreshment springing once more from the heart of London. With a fat bass line, a killer beat, a sultry vocal and dynamite hooks at every turn the results are nothing short of inspiring. Taking a fundamental, back to basics approach to the music that inspired them as teenagers is still the only way to go. So it should be no surprise, though it might be to some, that just when music seemed to be reaching its most anodyne and stale point for many years with dance music on its knees and the music industry in a state of flux, that the most radical thing to do right now is plug in and play the music you love soulful and loud. Born out of a deep love of classic 1970s grooves, this band of funkateers has always reacted against the grain and now they are back in the saddle after fifteen years of platinum selling success, hungrier than ever for bringing on some new, 21st century, block-rocking grooves. This has always been the case for the intensely funky Brand New Heavies. Yet when the music all around you is heading toward a processed, homogenous, uniformity you know the only way to survive is to just kick out the jams. People don't always see the sense in plotting your own, uncharted, course.
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