| Black Pumas / Black Pumas |
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| Album: | Black Pumas | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Black Pumas | Added: | Oct 2019 | |
| Label: | Ato Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2019-10-23 | Pull Date: | 2019-12-25 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 22 | Dec 15 | Dec 8 | Dec 1 | Nov 24 | Nov 10 | Nov 3 | Oct 27 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 20, 2023: | Hanging In The Boneyard Fire | 4. | Jul 14, 2022: | Hanging In The Boneyard Fire | |
| 2. | Sep 23, 2022: | Hanging In The Bone Yard Fire | 5. | Dec 01, 2021: | I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants (rebroadcast from Nov 21, 2019) Black Moon Rising | |
| 3. | Sep 05, 2022: | Exploring the ulA-file Colors | 6. | Jul 24, 2021: | Hanging in the bone yard Know You Better |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Stace Reviewed 2019-10-08 | ||
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Album / Artist: Black Pumas / Black Pumas Label: ATO Reviewed: 10/8/2019 DJ Stace General Comments / Release Notes Stax-a-rific! Motown-licious! This is Old School R&B at it’s best. Killer instrumentation, smooth as sweet cream vocals and grooves that will have you humming, whistling and singing for the next 6 months. Release Notes: “The creative partnership between Grammy Award-winning guitarist / producer Adrian Quesada and 27-year-old songwriter Eric Burton. Voted Best New Band at the 2019 Austin Music Awards.” FCCs: none RIYL: Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Sharon Jones, Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, listening to the Dead President’s sndtrk on repeat. Play: All, Especially: 1,2,4, but really, just throw at dart at this one and play whatever it hits. Tracks: 1. **** Black Moon Rising 03:41 - Begins with a drum roll, as if to say “Here comes the R&B Circus.” Midtempo head nodder with a great groove, and Barton’s stellar vocals and falsetto riffs it’s way through a slinky masterpiece. “All she want’s to do is groove, right on baby…” You’ll be singing this one for years. 2. **** Colors 04:06 - Killer little acoustic guitar riff starts off with a jangle, breaks into a killer rim-shot rhythm and doesn’t let go of you. Soulful, new, retro. Midtempo, handclaps, backup vocals are great. A couple of great little interludes make this one more complex that you might expect. 3. *** Know You Better 04:09 - Veering into Marvin Gaye territory with instrumentation and arrangement. Sweet and smooth, with a killer highhat rhythm, spare use of reverbed guitar reminiscent of Isaac Hayes “Walk on By” highlights moments. 4. **** Fire 04:06 - mid-Uptempo, foot stomping booty shaker from the get-go. Horns and a staccato rhythm punctuate a killer set of phrasings and lyrical flights. And, that killer guitar riff in the refrain. 5. *** OCT 33 04:49 - 12 string guitar strumming intro gives way to midtempo 70’s production with strings, etc… nods to Otis with the Fa, Fa, Fa,… and Mayfield’s Cinematic flair. 6. *** Stay Gold 04:35 - This mid tempo groove has a Marvin Gaye flavor to it. Burton shows fantastic range, from Baritone to Falsetto. 7. *** Old Man 03:17 - Mid to uptempo. Addictive little guitar riff and highhat rhythm, throughout. 8. *** Confines 03:09 - Mid to uptempo with great keyboard work and a great/spare guitar solo. 70’s radio perfection. 9. *** Touch The Sky 04:27 - Great intro with dirty little acoustic blues guitar breakdown, slides into satin sheets with the rest of the instrumentation. Great brass. 10. Sweet Conversation 03:22 - Slow tempo, Acoustic and pastoral. Birds chirping, light clicks and slaps for rhythm. Reminiscent of the simple acoustic tunes Bob Marley would throw down every once in a while. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Black Moon Rising | 6. | Stay Gold | |||
| 2. | Colors | 7. | Old Man | |||
| 3. | Know You Better | 8. | Confines | |||
| 4. | Fire | 9. | Touch The Sky | |||
| 5. | Oct 33 | 10. | Sweet Conversation |