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Dutty Moonshine Big Band
City of Sin
(Universal Music Group)
★★★★★
THE 12-STRONG Dutty Moonshine Big Band’s second album City Of Sin is an entertaining melange of atmospheric, 1930s-noir storytelling, innovatively spiced with rap.
The fulsome voices of Maria Laveau and Hypeman Sage switch dazzlingly between rapping and big-band crooning to narrate, tongue-in-cheek, the tale of a gang of moonshine bootleggers on their way up in the criminal world.
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