The Bamboos’ 12th studio album Sugar on Top arrives beneath a cover depicting a ripped sugar packet spilling sugar on an otherwise empty white backdrop, and the music inside is equally straightforward: warm, sweet and immediately accessible. Across ten tracks, the Melbourne soul veterans deliver uncomplicated, midtempo music that asks little of the listener beyond settling into its groove.
That is, broadly speaking, what the group intend. The Bamboos have been making soul and funk for more than 20 years, and the promos are describing Sugar on Top as “feel-good sweet soul”. The sizzling drumbeats and spacious basslines are consistently solid rather than showy, driving the songs forward in comfortable 4/4 grooves.
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…features the original album alongside rarities, instrumentals, previously unheard songwriting demos, rehearsals, and live sessions.
…contains 51 newly-mixed audio tracks, including 27 unreleased, live, extended, and previously unheard tracks.
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…features the original album newly remastered, a brand-new remix of the album from the original stems by longtime collaborator Cameron Webb, studio rehearsals and outtakes from the 1985 sessions, and the complete BBC Radio 1 Friday Rock Show session from 1986.
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