Blog: The Line Of Best Fit

Boston-via-Ethiopia ten-piece Debo Band are rapidly becoming one of our favourite new groups. They refer to themselves as a "groove collective" but we won't hold that against them, because their acutely contemporary take on Ethio-pop-meats-afrobeat is as entertaining as pretty much anything we've heard this year. 'And Lay', the latest track to materialise from their forthcoming debut album, seems to take its cues as much from North America as from East Africa, with a funk-inflected structure complemented by trebly, afrobeat guitars. But it's the horn section that is the lynchpin here, propulsive [...]