Massilia Sound System

A ninth album in 2021? Thats their way of linking roundnumbers and symbolic dates: Parla patois, their first album,came out in 1992 but Massilia Sound System have alwaysresisted the temptation of making anniversary albums orcelebrating the passing decades. Instead "Pour les conos, lespbrons et les cagants, cest le drame" ("For the schmucks,imbeciles, and arseholes, thats a problem") as they say in thefirst song here, A caval�t (Back in the saddle). Yes, combativebut grinning, committed but joking, thats who they are. Wedont often have an opportunity to cross paths with bandslike Massilia Sound System, who know how to use theirintelligence and speak from the heart, who call up the dreamsthat bring people together and the reality that binds them,whose music makes feet dance and hands create.