Four EP compilation from Afrobeat tinged funksters Karl Hector & The Malcouns. Can't Stand The Pressure collects the four EPs the band has released over the past decade. The Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers offshoot turns in a potent strain of afro-fusion that deftly mixes music styles from Eastern and Northern Africa alongside Western psychedelia, jazz and funk. This is some real deal goodness that puts Krautrock, Afrobeat, pan cultural psychedelia and deep funk in to the same pot and comes out with the best gumbo you've ever heard. Twenty-seven tracks in all. Released by Now-Again Records on four LPs housed in a limited edition hand silk-screened chipboard sleeve with art work by Jason Jagel.

• limited edition four LP set
• hand silk-screened chipboard sleeve with art work by Jason Jagel
• music label: Now-Again Records 2016

reviewed by Poly R. Thym 08/2016