Artist: Billy Gibbons and The BFG’s | Album: Perfectamundo | Released: 2015 | Label: Concord Records | Catalog # CRE-37886-02 | Genre: Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Southern Rock | Country: USA | Duration: 00:39:19
ZZ Top’s 2012 album La Futura — their first in nearly a decade — was widely acclaimed for bringing back the group’s grimy ’70s boogie, so what did Billy Gibbons choose to do for a follow-up? Naturally, he decided to leave his little old band behind so he could record Perfectamundo with a new group called the BFG’s. Perfectamundo allows Gibbons to not only indulge a newfound love of Cuban rhythms — an infatuation assisted by pianist Martin Guigui, who provides an anchor in the BFG’s — but also all the studio trickery he left behind as he worked with Rick Rubin on La Futura. Certainly, percolating Cuban rhythms lie at the foundation of Perfectamundo, but Gibbons can’t resist setting everything to tightly controlled drum machines, then hauling out a bunch of studio effects, including a vocoder that pushes his gravelly croak into something slippery and sly. All this flair is a welcome reminder that, for all his vaunted blues purism, Gibbons remains something of a futurist, happily blurring the lines between the present and past along with obliterating the lines between cultures. True, some of this playfulness can result in moments that are decidedly dorky, like the opening gambit of oldies covers (“Got Love if You Want It,” “Treat Her Right”), which feel stiff. “Hombre Sin Nombre” seems constructed to house every synthesized sound Gibbons ever imagined, “Quiero Mas Dinero” boasts a rap that would’ve seemed old-fashioned in 1989, and the chants of “baby shake that ass” on the title track are the furthest thing from sexy — but this isn
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