Review: We believe that A Healthy Obsession With Petanque - yes, that game of clanking metal "boules" so beloved by aging Frenchmen - is one of the album tiles of 2016. Musically, it's pretty darn tasty too. It brings together Chicago-born, Paris-based good-time MC Racecar and producer Grant Phabao for a cheery, floor-friendly trip into boom-bap rap territory. Racecar's confident, flexible rhymes work perfectly over Phabao's killer backing tracks, which variously doff a cap to Breakestra style funk, Ska, Afrobeat, dub and soul. In other words, it's a hugely confident set, stuffed full of DJ-friendly tracks, which should appeal to those who enjoy the work of Jurassic 5 and People Under The Stairs, for starters.
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