Late for the Future

• Artist: Galactic
• Rating:
• Release Date: April 04, 2000
• Total Time: 55:02
• Genre: Rock

Review

Marketed as an acid jazz band, New Orleans based Galactic has little to offer to jazz fans, but is popular with younger audiences who like to dance. They have an infectious groove well suited for the arm waver crowd, and occasionally live up to their name with spacey sounds, but fall way short of Sun Ra, and on an R&B level, Tower of Power or Stuff. Still they're good at what they do, Theryl de'Clouet is a fine soul singer, Stanton Moore a rock-solid drummer, and saxophonist/harmonicist Ben Ellman can play deep bluesy or avant garde themes on command.

The band splits time between instrumental funk or R&B pop. Most creative on "Hit The Wall," they play Balkan flavored funk with Ellman on baritone sax and Roger Lewis (Dirty Dozen) on soprano. Organ fired funk rock informs "Black Eyed Pea" with Ellman going outre, while overdubbed sax and harmonic trade off before contrasting industrial clattering during "Doublewide." Of the vocal tunes "Action Speaks Louder Than Words" is an excellent message and a real potential hit, "Thrill" a pleading love song, "Century City" a ponderous dinosaur rocker laden with electric guitar of Jeff Raines, "Running Man" a basic soul pop tune, and "Baker's Dozen" is a second line funk reminiscent of "Hollywood Swingers."

Fans of Maceo Parker, Medeski, Martin & Wood, or Groove Collective should gravitate toward Galactic, but they have a way to go before establishing themselves as any kind of innovators or trend setters. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Black Eyed Pea	Stanton Moore, Richard Vogel, Jeff Raines, Robert Mercurio	Galactic	(3:46)
Baker's Dozen	Galactic	Galactic	(4:18)
Thrill	Galactic, Jesse Johnson	Galactic	(3:28)
Century City	Galactic	Galactic	(4:54)
Jeffe 2000	Galactic	Galactic	(:58)
Doublewide	Galactic	Galactic	(4:54)
Running Man	Galactic	Galactic	(4:12)
Villified	Galactic	Galactic	(3:03)
As Big as Your Face	Galactic	Galactic	(6:23)
Hit the Wall	Galactic	Galactic	(6:05)
Action Speaks Louder Than Words	Galactic	Galactic	(3:33)
Bobski 2000	Galactic	Galactic	(1:40)
Two Clowns	Galactic	Galactic	(6:17)
[Untitled]	Galactic	Galactic	(1:31)

Credits

Harvie S. (A&R), Nick Sansano (Engineer), Galactic (Producer), Roger Lewis (Sax (Soprano)), Tom Coyne (Mastering), Nick Sansano (Producer), Robert Mercurio (Bass), Jay Blakesberg (Photography), Brandon Lively (Design), Theryl DeClouet (Vocals), David Lefkowitz (Management), Roger Lewis (Sax (Baritone)), Nick Sansano (Editing), Richard Vogel (Keyboards), Danny Madorsky (Assistant), Theresa Andersson (Vocals (Background)), Jeffrey Raines (Guitar), Eugene Jackson (Vocals (Background)), Stanton Moore (Drums), Nick Sansano (Mixing), Brandon Lively (Art Direction), Scott Williams (Cover Design), Nick Sansano (Recorder), Sullivan Wallace (Vocals (Background)), Donald Sylvester (Vocals (Background))

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