The Afro-beat/psych-rock collective's sophomore full-length effort, You Will Know Nothing, arrives just one year after Here Lies Man's 2017 eponymous debut, which delivered a muscular blend of lurid Sabbathy funk and hip-shaking cosmic worldbeat. Not much has changed for the Los Angeles-based quartet led by Antibalas and Daktaris guitarist Chico Mann -- the grooves are fathoms deep and the vibe is greasy and hot (in a good way) -- but there are some more progressive elements at play this time around. That's certainly not ...
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The Afro-beat/psych-rock collective's sophomore full-length effort, You Will Know Nothing, arrives just one year after Here Lies Man's 2017 eponymous debut, which delivered a muscular blend of lurid Sabbathy funk and hip-shaking cosmic worldbeat. Not much has changed for the Los Angeles-based quartet led by Antibalas and Daktaris guitarist Chico Mann -- the grooves are fathoms deep and the vibe is greasy and hot (in a good way) -- but there are some more progressive elements at play this time around. That's certainly not the case with openers "Animal Noises" and "Summon Fire," both of which continue to mine 1970s Afro-beat, funk, and soul for inspiration, but deeper cuts like "Voices at the Window," "Floating on Water," and the ethereal closer "You Ought to Know" deal in more abstract vistas, delivering different hues culled from the same retro spectrum, resulting in something that has more in common with the spacy, neo-psych-rock emissions of the Flaming Lips than it does crusty ethno-doom metal. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi
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