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...novelist, and a very fine one, Patrick McGrath has specialized in the modern Gothic, books in which madmen of one kind or another work their wiles. But his superb and unwholesome new novel, Port Mungo (Knopf; 242 pages), is not about anything so simple as abnormal psychology. It's about the brutal impulses available to anyone, especially artists, who would let slip the loose restraints of civilization...
...addition to experimenting with different musical styles, they also toyed with a few self-consciously hip names, including Mungo Park and The Sunday Clientele, before finally settling on Chester French. The name pays homage to sculptor Daniel Chester French, famous for the Lincoln Memorial and the John Harvard statue. They settled on the name while eating in Annenberg Dining Hall...
...Humungous, Fungo Mungo plays a vicious, pernicious, delicious brand of funk filled with grooves designed to move your behind and sociallyconscious lyrics to tax your mind...
From the opening moments of the album, which consist of a radio flipping through several Spanish stations, to its last tracks, the frenetic in strumental "Spontaneous Solo," Fungo Mungo has a clear vision of what they want to say and how they want...
...could easily see this album playing at a dance party, on a car radio, or in the CD player of your average funk/metal fan. Fungo Mungo is a talented young act, and is definitely worth checking...