Kula Shaker surprises with a double album, which seems to come straight from the seventies ★★★☆☆

Kula Shaker was the bitten dog of the British music press in the 1990s. The band would be too traditionalist, leaning too much on the past. The group of singer and guitarist Crispian Mills, with a penchant for psychedelic rock and Indian ragas, went extinct in 1999 but was resurrected in 2004. Now, six years after the last album, Kula Shaker surprises with a real double album. But little has changed. Opener Whatever It Is (I’m Against It) is a traditional southern rocker that, with organ carpet and all, seems lifted from the seventies. Kula Shaker knows its classics. In fact, the band is a medium for the spirit of a past pop past. hometown could be a gem from The Kinks; Burning Down a track by a young Bob Dylan. Played convincingly, but it also makes you think when a band mainly reminds you of their examples.