3 “This is the kind of creative, far-reaching, accessible album that comes along once in a generation,” said Thom Jurek in AllMusic. Four years ago, the London jazz octet Kokoroko scored a surprise hit with “Abusey Junction,” a mostly instrumental song melding jazz, West African highlife, and Afrobeat. The band’s “omnivorous, welcoming” new record adds even more global influences to the mix: Yoruban, Caribbean, and Latin, as well as funk and soul. The distinctive mix that result sounds “at once contemporary and timeless.” The album is at its edgiest amid the staccato horn blasts, funky bass line, and martial percussion that drive “War Dance,” said Kitty Empire in The Observer (U.K.). Most of the songs, though, are mellower. Some fans of the band’s jazzier work “might find this record a…
