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BoomBox, Mikey Thunder Staff Pick
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The newest installment from electronic duo BoomBox, Filling in the Color, is a funky, '70s-influenced haze-pop record. Russ "the Captain" Randolph and Zion Rock Godchaux, from the river city Muscle Shoals, Ala.—famous for its mention in "Sweet Home Alabama," when Lynyrd Skynyrd sang "Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers"—play a deep, vintage-psychedelic version of electronic dance music. They take their time introducing and teasing smooth melodies into soulful blues tracks with bass and trumpets. Filling in the Color is the third album from BoomBox, and has more of the laid-back groove they introduced in the first two albums. The signature beats sometimes take a back seat to more trance-like and smoky jazz rhythms, as in "Dream" and "Like a Feather." For the fans who need something to tide them over until the live performance, download the re-release of BoomBox's remix of Tupac Shakur's "Changes." Mikey Thunder, a solo artist from Denver who busts out bass-driven electro-funk, is joining them on tour. (Tiffany Frandsen)
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