Five years into the project, with two acclaimed albums and dozens of triumphant international performances to its name, Yermande announces a thrilling new phase for this Dakar-Berlin collaboration: emphatically a giant step forward. This new music is tangibly permeated with deadly intent from the off. Percussive venom and thumping bass against the soaring, open-throated spirituality of Mbene Seck’s singing. The drumming is unpredictable, exclamatory, zinging with life. Likewise the production: intuitive and fresh but utterly attentive. Six chunks of stunning, next-level mbalax, then, funky as anything.