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May 19, 2017Ultimately, Parking Lot Symphony is one of Trombone Shorty's most balanced productions, equal parts New Orleans R&B sophistication and loose, block party fun.
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May 19, 2017If there's a weakness here, it's that Shorty's lyrics feel like placeholders. ... The same could certainly not be said of the music, which is as rich and as complex as any he's made.
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Jun 8, 2017Parking Lot Symphony is a fine document of Shorty’s blend of New Orleans funk, modernized brass band fire, and old school soul. Four albums into the journey, though, the formula has been varied, repeated, and--perhaps--exhausted.
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May 19, 2017[Trombone Shorty's] allusive, crossover style is a piquant marinade that blends Crescent City jazz with blues, pop, funk, R&B, hip-hop, and rock flavours.
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May 19, 2017The venerable label throwing everything at him in the hope that something sticks. But the horny retro soul of No Good Time and It Ain’t No Use sound antiseptic when they should be down and dirty; the R&B slugging on Familiar falls a little flat; while a version of Here Come the Girls works only because it’s a note-for-note copy of the Allen Toussaint/Ernie K Doe original.