Er...where do I start? TBNH will always have my respect for reviving the Jazz Funk/Funk scene in the 90's along with the likes of JTQ and Jamiroquai but sadly this offering is not one of their better albums. This sounds like it's straight outta the 90's but not in a good way. The compositions/arrangments/melodies are formulaic, generic and uninspiring.

For the majority of the album TBNH stay in comfortable territory and deliver an insipid soul affair true to their sound from the 90's. Where they do decide to up the ante on tracks like 'Heat' and 'The Funk Is Back' the results are equally disappointing. 'Heat' borrows heavily from the Godfather, Prince, Zapp and Funkadelic yet still manages to sound laboured and dull. 'The Funk Is Back' is no different - It's too lightweight, too nice, too polished...where's the one? It feels as though Sir Nose has infiltrated TBNH.

When you have so many badass contemporary Funk bands like The New Mastersounds, Speedometer, Orgone, The Budos Band, The Monophonics, Lettuce, The impellers, The Apples, Dumpstaphunk, The Greyboy Allstars, Soulive just to name a few TBNH risk becoming consigned to the history books.

TBNH are back ! Fantastic album.

I think the funk is well and truly back.

Bangers!