“Brilliant”
Gilles Peterson
“Joyously mixing authentically Arabic musical tropes with ethnomusicological forgeries” Uncut 8/10
“This sounds like a Middle Eastern Manu Chao...one of the most original albums of the year in any genre”
Songlines ★★★★
“The sound is a glorious, ecstatic clatter”
Financial Times ★★★★
"Yemeni band El Khat deconstruct traditional folk songs into a gritty, guitar-fuelled collection of incisive statements"
The Guardian
“This is crazy music indeed, but crazy with a kind of wayward vitality, a sound universe all of its own...full of strange and wonderful beauty”
The Arts Desk ★★★★
“A ramshackle interrogation of Yemeni funk and pop sources filtered through invented and junk-made instruments, and played by a poly-glot group with roots in Iraq, Poland and Morocco”
Wire Magazine
“This is crazy music indeed, but crazy with a kind of wayward vitality, a sound universe all of its own...full of strange and wonderful beauty” Artsdesk
“El Khat take Yemeni folk songs and transform them into vigorous psychedelic stomps...an exciting new discovery”
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