Flap!
A Great Day For The Race
Vitamin
With a sultry swing ‘n’
swagger, Melbourne five-piece Flap! introduce their second long-player, opening
track ‘The Boogieman’ the sign of what’s to come; a shuffling beat overlaid
with the trumpet antics of 2010 National Jazz Award winner Eamon McNelis and
the distinctly Australian vocal of Jess Guille.
Twenties jazz / gypsy bands
are a dime-a-dozen these days, but where Flap! differ is in their ability to
pen as catchy a pop hook as you’ll hear all year, not to mention the inherent
honesty that comes through in their playing – nothing flashy for flash’s sake,
just rumbling Hammond B3, a distinctly New Orleans melding of horns, music for
the sake of music as is evidenced on every track, without exception, on A Great
Day For The Race. A finger-snapping
triumph of a record.
Samuel J. Fell
A Great Day For The Race is available now through Vitamin Records.
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