Uncut Gives Maggot Brain A Solid Recommendation

Uncut gives 9 out of 10 stars to the new ORG Music/Westbound Records reissue of Funkadelic‘s Maggot Brain. The magazine’s review explores the content of the classic LP, writing, “Following Free Your Mind… And Your Ass Will Follow (1970), Funkadelic’s philosophy found sourer expression in ‘Maggot Brain’’s diseased 16 minutes of American breakdown. George Clinton infamously told guitarist Eddie Hazel to play as if his mother had died, and the former’s production shapes a performance matching any guitar or vocal peer in articulating devastation… ‘Can You Get To That’ offers the contrasting idealism of a commune’s street-corner folk-soul. Closing epic ‘Wars Of Armageddon,’ though, resumes Clinton’s scatological and penetrating American diagnosis, as charging congas, cat-shriek guitar, laughter, screams and cuckoo sound effects end noisily in the shitter, prior to atomic wipeout.” Read all about it here and get the album spinning at your station.