It feels sometimes like the world has lost its funk. If that’s the case, then Flat Moon are here to restore it.
By Graeme Smith
The Leeds-based sextet have just released Cookin’ Up a Groove, a culinary-based experience of thirteen tracks that will fill up your funk stomach.
“Each musical style is an ingredient with its own flavour,” say the band. “Combine these flavours and you’ll get something that’s altogether different from the sum of its parts.
“When you’re ‘cooking up a groove,’ i.e. creating a piece of music, much like with a real recipe it’s fun to experiment with different ingredients to see what can happen. The tracks on this album are our musical experiments – the ones that have made the cut, at least!
“Not every crazy flavour combo works out for the best, but we’re incredibly happy with our ability to convey how much fun we have playing together in each and every track.”
When the band say they’re Cookin’ Up a Groove, they mean in. Every song and interlude on the album goes hard. They’re full of fun, humour, and showmanship that will bring a smile to your face and spring to your step.
Flat Moon are known to us. Just over a year ago, I shared their single A Moon’s Bouche to these pages, and the track acts as an early highlight on Cookin’ Up a Groove, rich with wordplay and a memorable groove.
Elsewhere amusing, storytelling tracks like B-Funk (Get Out The Way) and Too Drunk To Funk sit among interludes that tell tales of their own, particularly the album’s final track On A Close which recalls the dregs of the night.
What makes the album stand out most is it’s distinctive Britishness, better yet it’s Yorkshireness. Flat Moon are a band who could only have originated from our fair county.
Cookin’ Up a Groove is out now, and you can give it a listen below.
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