Think of The Voodoo Trombone Quartet as Thievery Corporation's fun loving, fez wearing, crazed-eyed cousin who's already ready for the next tiki bar, lives for cocktail hour and always lets you know when he's entered a room. However, The Voodoo Trombone Quartet's self-titled debut album isn't all fun and perversions of South Pacific ritual icons. Like the various states of lucidity one drifts through under the care of many mixed drinks, you'll experience fun, introspection, and tribal rumblings.

1. Intro
2. Voodoo Juju
3. Medium Wave
4. Le Trombone
5. Your Pleasure is Our Pleasure
6. Overload
7. The Latest Sound
8. Devil Take the Hindmost
9. Monster Island
10. Insect Song
11. Swings and Roundabouts

Despite the fact that this album was released in 2005, it's sound remains fresh and certainly deserves all the critical praise it received when it first landed on peoples ears. I don't mean to make a load of ESL Music references here but it's hard not to make some comparisons. Musically and in terms of mood, this album buzzes somewhere between the funk and breakbeats of Thunderball, and the wacky, grooved out good vibes of Ursula 1000. It isn't directly either one.

It's almost fit for beach bongo bingo, but it's too dark, so you'd have to swing that sandy footed action a little after midnight for these sounds to sound right. Be warned however that if you do, you might start feeling a little freaked out, as if the island natives you haven't yet met could be watching from beyond the palms, and may not be friendly.

There's just no way you can say that you've thrown a Tiki party unless The Voodoo Trombone Quartet was on the platter. Just no way. This is top quality stuff that's sure to put a silvery, cocoa buttery glow into any gloomy day and dark, rich, coconut husky vibes on the sunny ones.

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