{"id":411,"date":"2013-11-15T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=411"},"modified":"2013-11-26T10:22:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T15:22:29","slug":"luscious-jackson-magic-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/luscious-jackson-magic-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Luscious Jackson <br>Magic Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Luscious_Jackson-Magic_Hour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-412\" alt=\"Luscious Jackson, Magic Hour\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Luscious_Jackson-Magic_Hour.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Luscious_Jackson-Magic_Hour.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Luscious_Jackson-Magic_Hour-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Music fans should be used to the fact that we\u2019re on track to have every band from the \u201990s reunited, from the cult bands to the stadium-packers. It seems inevitable that the 20-year nostalgia bubble will soon make everything old, new again. The latest up to the plate, after a 14-year hiatus, is Luscious Jackson. After reconvening to record a children\u2019s album a few years ago, the band decided to turn their focus to a proper follow-up to their last record. The result is the self-released <i>Magic Hour.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As the first band signed to the Beastie Boys\u2019 Grand Royal, label, the band debuted to a large and curious audience.\u00a0 But while the Beasties were a brash mix of hip-hop, punk, and jazzy downtempo grooves at that point, Luscious Jackson lived in a world built on dusty lo-fi samples and loops that, while sharing some DNA with hip-hop, seemed to exist in another universe. Add to that the deadpan vocals and guitar playing of Gabby Glaser, the more melodic vocals of bassist Jill Cunniff, and the in-the-pocket backbeat of Kate Schellenback and <i>Search of Manny<\/i>, their EP debut,<i> <\/i>was a weird mix of familiar and brand new. Soon after they added keyboardist Vivian Trimble, and it was off to the races with two more records as a four-piece before Trimble left the fold and the core trio exited with 1999\u2019s swansong, <i>Electric Honey<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The one thread that runs through all of the Luscious Jackson catalog\u2014even as the production became cleaner and the songcraft more refined\u2014has always been the groove. Hence, it\u2019s no surprise that even so many years later, <i>Magic Hour<\/i> sounds unapologetically like a Luscious Jackson record. It could be slotted either right before or right after the first full-length, <i>Natural Ingredients<\/i>. It\u2019s not as polished as they have been, but it\u2019s not a 4-track throwback. Or to put it another way, it\u2019s not \u201cNaked Eye\u201d or \u201cLadyfingers,\u201d but it\u2019s also not \u201cDaughters Of Kaos.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s a warm record that showcases what made the group enjoyable. While they don\u2019t delve deep into the ESG-influenced groove of their past (most songs hover around the three-minute mark), there\u2019s plenty of dancefloor fodder. Lyrically, Cunniff and Glaser keep things pretty light and party-oriented, but they do take a moment to pen a tribute to their friendship (\u201cYou And Me\u201d) and their late friend Adam \u201cMCA\u201d Yauch (\u201cWe Go Back\u201d). There\u2019s no world-beating radio hit, but as a reunion album goes, <i>Magic Hour<\/i> is an enjoyable, unembarrassed ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music fans should be used to the fact that we\u2019re on track to have every band from the \u201990s reunited, from the cult bands to the stadium-packers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,145],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-luscious-jackson"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Luscious Jackson Magic Hour - The Agit Reader<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/luscious-jackson-magic-hour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Luscious Jackson Magic Hour - The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Music fans should be used to the fact that we\u2019re on track to have every band from the \u201990s reunited, from the cult bands to the stadium-packers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/luscious-jackson-magic-hour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheAgitReader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-11-15T16:00:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-11-26T15:22:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Luscious_Jackson-Magic_Hour.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dorian S. 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