Massive comparisons

Wellington soul collective Fat Freddys Drop released their second album Dr Boondigga & the Big BW earlier this year, an album which according to Guardian reviewer Neil Spencer has an “infectious mix of retro-soul and dub reggae, heavy with brass and fronted by the silky falsetto of Dallas Tamaira.” Spencer continues: “The default style remains the relaxed, loping groove, as on ‘Pull the Catch’, but ‘Shiverman’ is a 1-minute, trance-style thriller, and there are excursions into hip-hop and jazz on ‘The Nod’, while the embattled positivism on ‘Wild Wind’ casts them as an antipodean Massive Attack.” Fat Freddys Drop formed in 21.