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• Artist: Chuck Dukowsky Sextet
• Album: Reverse The Polarity
• Label: Nice and Friendly
• Year of Release: 2007
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• Reviewed by: patchen on 2007-12-11

Sounding like a psychedelic Cult or a punk Airplane, the Chuck Dukowsky Sextet manage to mine a lot of LA funk and psych, and create hot new stews. They even channel X on occasion, giving some of that band’s ideas new and less-pretentious life. The former bass legend from Black Flag, here joined by his wife Lora Norton on vocals and son Milo Gonzalez on guitar, with sax and clarinet help from Lynn Johnston make three minute songs sound like epic jams (“Destruction”, “Made of Grease,” “The Whole World’s Evil Villain,” “Electric Wires”) and mix in elements of funk and psych drone (“Flap Like Rats,” “Reverse the Polarity”) into a mighty stew. The band has humor to spare, but the seriousness of their call to love and peace is also jolting; refreshing and generous without coming across as too hippie or precious. Chuck D and company take their insistence on peace and joy just as seriously as Black Flag took their outrage over the enemies of peace and joy. Reverse The Polarity is the band’s second release on their own Nice and Friendly label, and displays a rich mix of styles with the chops to make it all swing. The CD6 are epic and approachable; join the family and pick this one up.

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