CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
Sunny Ade aside, this is the bestconceived juju album ever released in the U.S. One half is specialty items to engage the untrained ear—dub here, funk there, out harmonies somewhere else, all integrated unobtrusively into the basic weave.
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
BY ROBERT CHRISTGAU
DELE ABIODUN �Adawa Super Sound�
(Shanachie)
Sunny Ade aside, this is the bestconceived juju album ever released in the U.S. One half is specialty items to engage the untrained ear—dub here, funk there, out harmonies somewhere else, all integrated unobtrusively into the basic weave. The other half is tipico medley, like on a real African juju album, which oddly enough is the first time that self-evident ploy has ever been tried out on the American public. A-
ANGST �Lite Life�
(SST)
These three guys are smart enough to know they have a problem—they can�t sing. They�re also smart enough not to let that stop them. After declining the Most Inappropriate Cowpunk Band'Name Lariat Twirl and qualifying for the Eklekticism Rods Speed Trials, they enter the Music Machine Memorial Songwriting Contest and do all right—you�d swear �Just To Please You� (or was it �Never Going To Apologize�?) was the track that caught you humming on Pebbles VI. B
THE ROBERT CRAY BAND �False Accusations�
(Hightone)