Описание
Miles Doughty - Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Kyle McDonald - Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Ryan Moran- Drums
Oguer Ocon - Congas, Percussion, Harp, Vocals
DE LA - Saxophone
C-Money - Trumpet and Keyboards
Genre: Rock / Reggae / Acoustic / Blues
Hometown:
Ocean Beach, San Diego, CA
Record Label:
Stoopid Records
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With more than a decade of making music together, the members of Slightly Stoopid have perfected one of the rarest—and most valuable—skills a band can develop: the art of the stealth groove, that knack for quietly—almost innocently—sliding into a song and utterly lassoing anyone within earshot by mid-song. That’s where the band has come to reside, musically: deep in the pocket, that ever-elusive, funky trench where a band can entrance an audience, hypnotize it and hold on to it until the set or CD is finished.
And that’s just what the band does on its sixth studio offering, Chronchitis, another collection of hypnotizers built on a bedrock of nasty, oceanic slabs of dubby bass and meditative vocals. A cornucopia of styles and influences—a little sweet lullaby here, a dose of Kingston rocksteady there, a fat chunk of hip-hop there, a slight Eastern groove way over there—Chronchitis is the fruit of sessions in Austin, Los Angeles and Redondo Beach, helmed by a crop of top-shelf producers: Paul Leary (Butthole Surfers, Meat Puppets, Sublime), Mario Caldato Jr. (Beastie Boys, Jack Johnson), longtime band associate Miguel (Sublime), and Chris D. (G. Love).
Featuring guest turns from Guru of Gang Star (“The Otherside”), G. Love (“Baby I Like It”), Angelo Moore of Fishbone (“Ever Really Wanted”) and the Beastie Boys’ keyboardist Money Mark, Chronchitis is another volume in the band’s string of blissed-out party records. It’s the ultimate soundtrack to a momentous summer evening, an instant beachside keg party filled with good drink and smoke and a psychedelic sunset.
“I think this is our most mature record,” says co-frontman Miles Doughty. “We’re getting older as people, as musicians, and, honestly, I think this record reflects everything from life to love, madness, good times, bad times, it’s just all incorporated in this record. It’s life through our eyes.”
The disc is comprised of all the ups and downs one might experience during that great night out: there’s smooth acoustic moments like opener “Anywhere I Go” (the soundtrack to a great, mellow buzz), full-on, rump-shaking, grin-spreading jams (“Ever Really Wanted”) and the easy-rolling, end-of-the-party/last-call, chill, pot-bust cut “2 am,” all awash in Jamaican horns and rich organ swells.
“That’s just a bad-attitude-toward-the-cops song,” says co-frontman Kyle McDonald, who shares vocal, bass and guitar duties with Doughty. “It’s about the police holding up the innocent, when they could be doing better things with our tax money instead of going after skateboarders, pot smokers and people who park in the wrong spot. It’s about a lot of people’s lives, a lot of people go through that situation where they’re just sitting in their house and in comes someone who just ruins them over what, a plant?”
“I like that song, and I really like ‘Girls so Fine,’ which is just about my girl, and kind of about when you need someone… There’s all sorts of stuff on this record. It’s a good one to steal. If you’re gonna steal one, steal this one.”
Issued through the band’s Stoopid Records/Controlled Substance Sound Labs, Chronchitis again finds Doughty, McDonald, drummer Ryan Moran and percussionist Oguer Ocon (formerly of the B-Side Players) and the new horn section of C-Money and Dela (from John Brown’s Body) carefully and rather expertly blending influences as diverse as Cat Stevens and Lee “Scratch” Perry. If some songs are entrenched in mid-70s roots reggae, others blend both classic and third-generation SoCal rocksteady. In the meantime, wee touches of Blues Traveler and Dr. John occasionally eme
