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Declassified (Groove Collective album)
Declassified is an album by the American band Groove Collective, released in 1999.[3][4] The album peaked at No. 48 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.[5] The band supported it with a North American tour.[6] ProductionThe album was produced by band member Genji Sirasi.[7] At the time of the recording, Groove Collective included 14 members.[8] Declassified contains a cover of the Paul McCartney-penned "Martha My Dear".[9] Lucy Woodward contributed vocals to "Up All Night".[10] Critical reception
Pitchfork called Declassified "modern funk that's not afraid to integrate with every other influence held dear by each of its 14 members."[13] The Washington Post thought that the band "are skillful cut-ups, whether they're reconstituting a '70s-funk shuffle ('Up All Night'), toying with what sounds like a PBS-theme fanfare ('Some People'), appropriating Steve Reich's modal shuffle ('Undercover Life') or narcotizing the Beatles' 'Martha My Dear'."[7] The Orange County Register declared that, "were it to lose some of the cloying Spyro Gyra-isms it uses as a crutch, this New York outfit ... would be the tightest bunch of funketeers since the Average White Band, if not P-Funk."[12] Bass Player wrote: "Ever maturing and enduring, GC shows polish and panache on its latest without abandoning previous experiments with multi-flavored trance-like rhythms."[15] The Philadelphia Inquirer deemed the album "stuttering soul and party-psychedelia creamy with lush melody and Latin grooves."[16] The Boston Herald opined: "Freed by their variety-is-the-spice approach, the New York group is looser and moves better while sharpening its breezy future grooves."[17] AllMusic wrote that the album "finds the congregation in a most jubilant mood, happy to simply stretch out on a series of infectious singalong jams."[11] Track listing
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