Utopie d'Occase

now "Utopie d'Occase." I love every track here. The band seems to have matured, too, as the sounds on the record are a bit more chill -- but believe me, this CD makes you want to dance like bloody crazy and sing in a language that you don't know. The beats are still great, and I'm willing to overlook that Zebda sort of re-write 'Le Petit Robert' from "Essence" for one track here. The flat-out joy of "C'est la fete" is enough to get the body rocking and the room moving. If you want to here the dawn of a new day in France -- and hopefully not the xenophobic, anti-Semitic France -- then you better get hip to Zebda, one of the biggest groups in the country now, boy-e-e-e-e.