MDOU MOCTAR - Funeral For Justice LP (colour vinyl)

Limited edition blood red colour vinyl. Black wax also available.

Highly recommended.

Wonderful follow-up to 2021's excellent Afrique Victime. The formula is more or less the same - fiery, fast desert blues, roaring guitar solos, knotty, elliptical lead lines, frenetic rhythms in quick waltz-like time signatures.

Everything feels more urgent and immediate though. This was incredibly gripping on first listen, the riffs are punchier, yet equally spellbinding, the softer moments feel more engaging and less like intermissions in between the main event guitar solos.