On their first album in five years, Antibalas return to the sound that launched their career back at the turn of the millennium. Hourglass is a straight-up slab of rich, punchy Afrobeat with a funk heartbeat, jazz lucidity, and no vocals. The Brooklyn band’s core foundation was built around their instrumental prowess, though surprisingly, this is their first all-instrumental set.
Over the years, they have paired elegant grooves with thoughtful lyrics about everything from late-stage capitalism and climate change to Native American genocide. Following 2020’s conceptual Fu Chronicles, Antibalas parted ways with singer Duke Amayo, who had been with them since their debut. Rather than seek a new vocalist, they decided to emphasize what has been their…

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