Zombie Zombie - Livity

The Guardian 60

(Versatile)

Grooves are Zombie Zombie’s stock in trade. You could spend this album’s playing time analysing how this French combo – now on their third studio outing – draw from analogue cinema soundtracks, tribal psychedelia, krautrock and vintage 808s, or ponder the red herring of the title. Livity, the killer opener, takes its name from Rastafarian righteous living, but short of a few dubby echoes, reggae is the one genre Etienne Jaumet, “Cosmic” Neman and Dr Schonberg don’t audibly mine here. No track is shorter than six minutes; some jazz sax and handclaps set Looose apart from its surroundings, which are never anything other than engrossing.