GALACTIC “Already Ready Already” CD

The long-awaited new album from Galactic, the world's strongest jam funk band from New Orleans! A superbly exciting masterpiece featuring a variety of guest singers!

Galactic releases their first new studio album in over three years, All Lady, Lady, All Lady. Here, the renowned New Orleans-based instrumental group takes a decidedly contemporary approach to their signature progressive sound, incorporating modern rhythms and electronic instrumentation within a crowd-swaying framework of Crescent City funk pop-n-roll. Produced by members Robert Mercurio and Ben Elman, on the new album, Galactic once again enlists a diverse cast of guest vocalists to aid in their musical explorations, each adding their own lyrical flavor and individuality to the band's multifaceted groove. Opening and closing with two of Galactic's trademark powerhouse instrumentals, the album is titled All Lady, Lady, All Lady. From the stripped-down bass-drum kicks and snaps of "Going Straight Crazy," featuring New Orleans singer Princess Shaw (a YouTube sensation), to the trippy, fast-paced rapping of punk cabaret artist Boyfriend on the blisteringly fast "Dance At My Funeral," the album is a short, unmistakable, ferocious blast of creative muscle. As ever, Galactic's eclectic musical interests make easy genre categorization entirely impossible. All Lady Lady All Lady is as inclusive and universal as the band's name was so long ago established.

"We couldn't put a name to what we were doing," Elman says. "You can call it lots of different things. You can call it funk or R&B or jazz or whatever, but it's really all of those things."

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