It’s not every day that an album can blend influences as varied as trip-hop, T. Rex, and techno and make it all work. Kava Kava does this.

This UK sextet takes music from all over the spectrum and makes a perfectly coherent sound out of it. Even the long tracks on the album work — nothing drags. The vocals are delivered perfectly, and flex from sounding like The Zutons, to getting crossed up with performers like Kenna and Faithless. Forwards flawlessly shifts from trip-hop to brass-heavy funk to electro-rock. Even the pair of remixes and the end of the album are near perfect, with the Jon Kennedy remix of “Tic” being just spectacular. There is nothing wrong here — simply an incredible record that can be listened to for hours on end.

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