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Formats and Editions
1. Made For Pleasure
2. High & Wide
3. Enough Is Enough
4. Fancy
5. Cigar Time
6. Joy
7. Sitting On My Knees
8. Let's Do Another
9. Pho Baby
10. Just Gotta Run
11. Tranquilo
More Info:
Recorded in New Orleans, The New Mastersounds high-step through the humidity and heat leaving no soul or funk touchstone unturned. Both the title track and “High & Wide” are drenched in The-Meters-meet-Lee-Dorsey Big Easy funk, while tracks like “Enough Is Enough,” “Joy” and “Just Gotta Run” are firmly rooted in classic soul sister rhythm and blues tradition; think Tina Turner, Ann Peebles, Betty LaVette. Super-charged by Eddie Robert’s stinging guitar leads, “Cigar Time” and “Sitting On My Knees” take a decidedly souljazz turn, diving headlong into Grant Green grit and groove. Capping off Made For Pleasure and further validating its title is a dubbed out reinvention of Iggy Azalea’s smash hit “Fancy” that cleverly turns the pop artist’s ode to materialism into a 21st century stoner anthem with the repurposed refrain, “I’m so irie.”
