The Allergies are back with a new album – Rejoice! And the feel-good funk, hip-hop swagger, and dusty vintage loops, is everything you need right now.
Across the 13 tracks, producers Rackabeat and DJ Moneyshot dig deep into their souls, as well as their record collections, serving up a day-glo blast of super positive sampledelia that'll have you smiling from ear to ear.
Built from scratch during lockdown, each song offers up a world to lose yourself in, free from any and all dark clouds. It's their Promised Land, and everyone is welcome to bask in the sunshine.
Along for the ride is LA rap legend, Andy Cooper [Ugly Duckling], soul sensation Marietta Smith, dance music heavyweight, Dynamite MC, and the unmistakable voice of hip-hop royalty, Lyrics Born.
Everyone got the memo, as career-best performances roll one after the other. And each singer, rapper, scratcher, and sampler, unites through the power of good good music.
Highlights on the LP include the swamp blues meets half-time hip-hop monster, 'Lean On You'. The Latin funk bomb, 'Move On Baby'. Soul rollers 'New Thing' and 'Are You Ready', and the show-stopping and stirring Moby-ish beat banger, 'Promised Land'.
Almost a concept album, the idea of fresh starts, strange new worlds, loss, solidarity, freedom, and the communities we find in clubs, festivals, and making and sharing music, began to come out, organically, through the song-writing process.
"In a weird way the album wrote itself," says DJ Moneyshot. "We'd be lost in our own little world of hypnotic loops as days passed, and samples jumped out of the shelves, and just started to make sense as they got chopped and layered into these tracks."
Early support for the singles, and response from fans across the globe, suggests that this, their fifth album, really could be something special. Come on in…
Tracklist
01: Lean on You (feat. Dynamite MC)
02: Love Somebody
03: Promised Land
04: New Thing
05: Utility Man (feat. Andy Cooper)
06: Move on Baby
07: Going to the Party (feat. Lyrics Born)
08: Are You Ready (feat. Andy Cooper & Marietta Smith)
09: Working on Me
10: Jumping Off
11: The Beat
12: Up Down Left Right (feat. Andy Cooper & Marietta Smith)
13: You
Promo Support
"Massive – a total dancefloor destroyer: The Allergies at their very best!" - Craig Charles on 'Move on Baby'
"These guys are party rockers...and that's the truth" – DJ Format
"If you're not checking for The Allergies, then you really are a stupid wally" – DJ Yoda
Craig Charles Trunk of Funk (BBC 6 Music) – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xbq9
UK Radio
Lean on You- BBC Radio 2 (Craig Charles) x2, BBC 6 Music (Craig Charles, Don Letts), BBC Radio Wales x4, BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Radio Leicester Soho Radio BCfm, The Face Radio,Radio X/XFM, Amazing Radio, Jazz FM (John Osborne), SWU FM, Totally Wired Radio, Solar Radio, Pie Radio, Hoxton FM x13,
Working on Me – BBC 6 Music (Craig Charles, Don Letts), Jazz FM, Mi-Soul, BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Bristol x5, BBC Radio Wales x2, Funk By Funk Radio
Move on Baby - BBC Radio 2 (Craig Charles) x2, BBC Radio 6 Music x4 , Jazz FM (John Osborne), BBC Radio Leicester, BBC Radio Bristol x2, BBC Radio Wales x9, WWFM (Rob Da Bank), Totally Wired Radio, Amazing Radio, Solar Radio
Are you Ready – BBC Radio 2 (Oti Mabuse for Rylan),BBC Radio 6 Music x2, BBC Radio 4 (Rajan Datar's Pick of the Week), BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Devon, BBC Bristol x3, X (John Kennedy), Amazing Radio x2, Kane FM, BCfm, Solar Radio, Radio X Manchester, Mi-Soul, Radio X/X FM,
International Radio
Lean on You - Radio Krimi Playlist (France),The Face Radio (Brooklyn, USA), KRXP-FM (USA), KHHX (USA), Ylex (Finland), Polskie Radio Czworka (Poland) x 8, Aire Libre (Mexico), 2ser (Australia), LRT Opus (Lithuainia) x3, Radio Stadtfilter (Switzerland), XHOF-FM/Reactor (Mexico),
Working on Me – KEXP (USA), Radio Stadtfilter (Switzerland), Radio 1 (Czech Republic), Radio Z (Germany) x2 , Primitive Radio (France)
Move on Baby –The Fac
