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The Heavy — The House That Dirt Built

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) October 30, 2009 2:29 pm
For all of King Khan's I'm-the-new-James Brown bluster, all it takes is the 1-2 of Kelvin Swaby's scream in "Oh No! Not You Again!" and the pointed "How You Like Me Now" to take that cape right off of Khan and put it in The Heavy's camp. Better than those songs, however, would be the Howlin' Wolf channeling future-retro...
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The Heavy — Great Vengeance And Furious Fire

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) April 8, 2008 10:26 am
The Heavy are truly cosmic when they get it right, such as on "Coleen," which sounds like Curtis Mayfield inexplicably fronting the Lo Fidelity Allstars with The Ikettes on back-up. The supersonic blast of "That Kind Of Man" is even better. A hands-in-the-air ass-shaker propelled by a wall of a thousand horns, it's enough to...
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The Heavy Cause Sexing

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) July 24, 2008 3:17 pm
The Heavy make filthy music. It's swampy, earthy funk layered in rusted drums that sound like they've come tumbling out of hell's disco. It's shameless, sweaty, horn-splattered soul music to dance, pump fists, lay back and perhaps even engage in some sweet, smelly lovemaking to. "We get accused of a lot of people having sex to our music,...
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