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"The freshest-sounding thing they've done for a while ... They've always been ones to embrace an open-minded culture-crossing approach, married to a distinctively French mix of smoke-stained bohemianism, folkiness and experimental edges. Here, some guests are welcomed into the fold. French jazz trumpet bigshot Erik Truffaz drops in on a couple of tracks. There's Swiss rapper Miro and one track even has a chorus of children (which works surprisingly well). The sound is broadened out with a range of North African instruments, blus bassoon, kora and gayageum (Korean zither), to name but a few. It's a winning formula, light and spare but with a whole raft of moods and influences. This is the best kind of world music (if that term is still acceptable currency), looking out from a strongly rooted sound to embrace all-comers. All in all, a good time to be reacquainted with the Lo'Jo tribe".