You can't call Black Pumas a retro act, per se: The sound is too atmospheric, too intoxicatingly imprecise, something more remembered than recreated.
The work of an Austin-based studio rat (Adrian Quesada) and a vocalist trained in church and forged busking on the Santa Monica Pier (Eric Burton), Black Pumas is to late-'60s and early'70s soul as Quentin Tarantino movies are to vintage exploitation: a studied look at the past from a place that could only be now. Ominous, uplifting, and gently psychedelic, Black Pumas is the kind of album whose spirit lingers in the air like smoke.
Pressed on limited edition white and light blue wax!
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