{"id":17411,"date":"2013-07-02T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T19:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=17411"},"modified":"2013-07-02T13:32:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T21:32:52","slug":"summertime-soul-watchlisten-to-fat-freddys-drops-clean-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-07\/summertime-soul-watchlisten-to-fat-freddys-drops-clean-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Summertime Soul: Watch\/Listen to Fat Freddy’s Drop’s “Clean The House”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Even though it’s winter in their native New Zealand, Fat Freddy’s Drop<\/strong><\/a> dropped one on us this week and took us back to our adolescent summers when the radio was filled with high-quality soul-psychedelia from The Undisputed Truth, Curtis Mayfield, The Isley Brothers, The Temptations, Ohio Players, Sly and the Family Stone, Dramatics, Cornelius Brothers, O’Jays<\/strong>, and yes, even Rare Earth. \u00a0<\/strong>Those were heady radio times that still resound in our minds all these years later.<\/p>\n

We had heard mention of the popular Wellington band Fat Freddy’s Drop<\/strong>, but only in the last week have we actually listened to the band.\u00a0 This is a dangerous game to be playing since we hold to the philosophy that nostalgia can be deadly to one’s musical soul.\u00a0 But take a listen below and watch the (somewhat bizarre puppetry\/marionette-dominated) video for Clean The House<\/strong> <\/em>off of their impending third album Blackbird<\/strong>.\u00a0 Ya gotta love the guitar work of Tehimana Kerr<\/strong> (aka Jetlag Johnson<\/strong>) on this song.\u00a0 And it takes us back to those lazy, vinyl-spinning, poolside summers of Central California.\u00a0 Forgive us.\u00a0 We’ll be back soon with something newer and arguably more progressive.\u00a0 In the meantime, though, enjoy this groove.<\/p>\n