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- Summary: The fourth album from the Los Angeles band blends latin music with rock, ska, hip-hop, and other genres.
- Record Label: Concord
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Latin
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 2 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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Nearly everything about Don’t Mess With the Dragon is as fluid and serpentine as the album’s namesake.
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You could always dance to Ozo's beats, but this time they supply more hip-churning swing than alt-rock stomp.
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Ozo makes its kitchen-sink musical fusion feel seamless in any given number... Still, "Dragon" can be dizzying in its sheer variety.
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VibeOzomatli's joyful beats... pulse with defiance. [Apr 2007, p.132]
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BillboardIt's hard to stay completely original album after album, but Ozomatli does exactly that when it sticks to the sounds of Los Angeles it helped put on the map. [14 Apr 2007]
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Spin[They] downplay the hip-hop boom-bap... in favor of busy pop jams that mirror the overstimulation of 21st-century life. [Apr 2007, p.93]
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It's not that any of these tracks are bad: Ozomatli is comprised of talented enough musicians, and have been doing it for long enough now, that they're able to pretty much successfully pull off anything they try, but these songs move so far from the sociopolitical salsa on which they created themselves that it's almost hard to recognize them as from the same band.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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momdogApr 14, 2007Get it
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LuisSApr 13, 2007
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