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Fresh finds: The UK based jazz/funk group fuses a wondrous sound of soulful chorus

This track is one you have to embrace with all your might. If your brain isn’t ejecting dopamine after listening to this incredible tune, then who on earth are you?

This South-East London music collective is melding opportunities from a vast petri dish for the pleasure gardens of sound. Their latest single, Slick Talk, is a silently deafening fold of choral ambience melting in both the foreground and background of your mind.

What Slick Talk Sounds Like

You can tell Monzanto Sound love what they do—because—quite simply, it sounds good. It’s not forced in any way; there’s no pithy anecdotes. It’s spiritually inviting, and I enjoyed writing about this song.

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Exploring layers of chorally promising textures, the group have most definitely inhaled a waft of simmering rehearsals to deliver a bountiful plate of funky rhythm. I’m loving it — the music sounds fun, sincere, and above all else, an experience. It’s incredibly difficult to mine the music landscape for sonically expansive frameworks, so when you find them, keep them in a playlist of importance.

The Verdict

With a hook of polyrhythmic music bound together by a freeing sense of ambiguity, the track thrives on its cohesive camaraderie. Built into its colourful canvas is the vocal dynamism of lead singer Mimi Koku, while her bandmates — Wazoo Baden, Mali Baden-Powell, Rachel Asafo-Agyei, and Anthony Boatright lift the track through drums, keys, guitar, and bass. This is one tremendous bout of multi genre music you must consider.

How to Hear it

You can stream the group’s fresh track on all streaming platforms, including Apple, Spotify, Tidal, and YouTube Music. Thankfully, the group’s forthcoming album, The Channel, will be released on vinyl and is due to drop on August 8th 2025 via None More Records.