African Headcharge - Off the Beaten Track (Vinyl) Soft Machine Bidding for a popular breakthrough

Bidding for a popular breakthrough with their second major-label album

the band’s longtime visual collaborator Adam Smith and Alexis Petridis

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Produced by longtime collaborator James Ford

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African Headcharge - Off the Beaten Track (Vinyl) Soft Machine Bidding for a popular breakthroughOff the Beaten Track sounds like anything and everything or, to put it another way, it sounds like African Head Charge funk dub foundations with sticky rhythms and loops, sprinkled with sick samples that include animal cries, tribal chants, and shouts from both types of jungle untamed and concrete. The album picks up steam as it goes, becoming increasingly eccentric yet somehow more familiar as it rumbles along. The album ends on an enduring and