"2018 fRoots critics poll: "Compilations, reissues and historical" winner" - "In common with, for example, Mali's famed Super Rail Band, [Dur-Dur] were a hard-working hotel band who took the international music that the guests and elites grooved to and many hours of playing had fine-tuned, used it to re-invent local folklore in local dialects, and found themselves massively popular as it resonated with a new generation. Dur-Dur's musical schooling was in funk, disco, soul and reggae, with choppy wah-wahed guitar, "green" organ and brass, but their three singers anchor everything locally. And they can do catchy as well as funkus-maximus. It's no suprise to read that "Yabaal" (Blossom) sung by Sahra Dawal was the hit off the first album, or the loping reggae-tinged "Dinleeya" (Riddie) off Volume 2. Apparently there's still a Volume 3 to come".