SECURITY - ANTIBALAS
With a new label and producer in place, Antibalas remains the hardest-working 12-member Afrobeat collective in show business — not a large fraternity, no, but you couldn’t tell by their work ethic. On their fourth full-length, the Brooklyn natives use the rather lively state of world affairs as their inspiration. There’s not much question about their targets on tracks like the monster “Filibuster X,” whose title refers to not only its legislative targets but its 12-minute running time. More sprawling and experimental than their previous effort, 2004’s excellent “Who Is This America?,” “Security” lunges in a new experimental direction every few minutes — screwball percussion jams, free jazz, prog and a surprising percentage of straight-ahead rock — but never strays far from the groove, nor its compelling indignation.(ANTI-) Billboard
