George Clinton

As the Ohio Players would have it, George Clinton is funky like nine cans of shaving powder -- proof of which is supplied here by the slo-mo slide into the solid stank strut of "Su Su Su" and the Prince-powered overstanding of "Paradigm." But proceed with caution: Clinton overloaded his internal editor long, long ago.

The most surprising thing about George Clinton's first album of new material in almost a
decade isn't how long it took to arrive; it's that it's not terribly funky. Recorded over
several years, How Late sounds alternately like an audio diary and a slow party, long on
spoken-word pieces and bland pop-soul numbers that must have begun as cosmic
vibrations in the Atomic Dog's cerebellum and never developed much beyond th... More >