SHIT AND SHINE - Mannheim HBF 2LP afrobeat Stuart Staples and his cadre

Stuart Staples and his cadre of gentleman musicians continue to plumb the emotional depths of humanity in their own thrilling and unique way

Only one of those things happened

The series gets its name from the epic Less Artists More Condos concerts that the late ARIEL PANERO threw in New York

whose music pushed boundaries and chose artistic innovation over any commercial concerns

The group created California psych/rock music that was both fragile and dreamy

SHIT AND SHINE - Mannheim HBF 2LP afrobeat Stuart Staples and his cadreHighly recommended. Recognized masters of genre fuckery, science fiction noise, and purple ooze kosmische r+d strike for 2025's vitals with typical unpredictable poise and thirst for the weird nectar (and Nektar). At this level of cool, we trust Shit And Shine implicitly: Mannheim HBF isn't brief but in terms of the group's expansive catalogue, it's spectacular; it may be one of their best.