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Our Music Year No. 26: Gogol Bordello, ‘Trans-Continental Hustle’
Artist: Gogol Bordello
Title: “Trans-Continental Hustle”
Year: 2010
Format: Spotify
Grade: B
Plenty of artists have a reputation for being better live. Gogol Bordello is among that group.
I’ve never seen Gogol live, but I saw footage of its live show in 3-D in a movie theater once.
To try to bottle that punch and zest, enter uber-producer Rick Rubin, a man with a mastery of such wizardry, for the band’s fifth platter, “Trans-Continental Hustle.”
The record is a composite of the band’s many international flavors, including Ukranian singer Eugene Hütz’s relocation to Brazil in the year prior to recording.
Like an animal in a cage, the studio still feels like it constrains Hütz, although Hustle, the group’s major-label debut, shows more polish than any of its predecessors.
They’re a group not to be taken too seriously – the genres try to shift, but somehow manage a fun sameness – but instead to relax and embrace.
“Hustle” may not be a drastic departure from its brethren in Gogol’s catalog, but something tells me no one expected anything different.
Our Music Year is Daily Republic popular culture writer Nick DeCicco’s yearlong online review in 2012 of albums he had previously not listened to. The reviews will appear in print on their corresponding days during 2013. Reach him at 427-6966 or ndecicco@dailyrepublic.net. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ndeciccodr.
Nick DeCicco
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