Kudu - Back for More: A Remix Collection (CD)

All Music Guide

Kudu are Back for More, taking another bite of their 2006 Death of the Party album. Fans hoping for a new set from the Big Apple electropop trio will be initially disappointed, but that feeling will fade once they slap this disc into their CD player. The set revolves around souped up remodels of Party tracks, but also includes their much sought after 2006 single "Boom Boom (Black Blonde Mix)", "Cannibal (Bite Me Mix)", a number from their eponymous debut EP, and a brand new song. Most of the remixes turn the originals inside out, and never more so than the title track, which transforms a bouncy number into a slinky, big band extravaganza that snakes between The Creatures, The Specials and Massive Attack. Elsewhere, the quirky, No Wavey "Black Betty" is doused in the blues,