System Breakdown – Loud Apartment (reviewed by Dave Franklin)

Spend any time listening to the lyrics of any song you choose on this latest album by NYC funk fusionaries Loud Apartment and you will realise that they have something to say. Listen to the whole album and you realise that they have a lot to say and across a wide variety of social subjects. And important things too. 70’s punk based a whole movement around the fact that they were vaguely bored. 90’s punk created a soundtrack for a generation who didn’t want to tidy their bedroom. Imagine what would happen if people got behind much needed rabble-rousers and social revolutionaries as these guys…

Enough is Enough gets to the heart of the band’s outlook on this album and on life in general…it is time for a change and it is down to the people on the street to instigate it… a marvellous manifesto put to deft reggae tones and soulful licks. Restless blends hip-hop with funk and beats with brass, The Thrill is Good rides some pop-soul grooves running between underground cool and mainstream potential and Dub Enough digs down into some dark dub delicacies.