Recloose – Perfect Timing: Funk yes.

Detroit-native and now Auckland-based DJ/producer/live band leader/funkmaster du jour Matt Chicoine, a.k.a Recloose, has returned with album number four.

It is somewhat of a departure from his previous offering, with the live recording of The Recloose Band in Backwards and Sideways, with it’s polished studio-work but funkdified all the same.

Once again he is supported by a stellar team of local talent including Joe Dukie and Warren Maxwell from Fat Freddys fame and his long running (and proudly Hamilton-bred) vocal supplier, Tyna Keelan just to name a few.


After the collaboration that set the precident with party-pleaser 'Dust', he re-groups with Dukie's soulful vocals on neo-disco track 'Deeper Waters' to ensure that lovers on dancefloors everywhere will be satisfied.

Perhaps more importantly Keelan features and provides the accompaniment to what has become somewhat of a signature sound for Recloose. Good, old-fashioned funk gets its dirty hands on more than a few tracks and 'Emotional Funk' would undoubtedly have the Purple One tapping a bedazzled shoe in approval of the Minneapolis-tinged effort.

All of the nostalgia can be a bit much for some to swallow, with The Herald claiming it would have been more appropriate a few summers ago, as if this 1970-1980s referencing was coming all too late. Perhaps he should have gone for the early to mid-1990’s instead? How retro of Recloose.

All in all it sounds like summer and in this bitter winter, exactly what we all need.