A super-cool, turtle necked black sweater of a latin jazzed kung-fu spy movie soundtrack.
Recorded this today, and it has all of the elements above and more.
It could be seen as a pretentious Jean Paul Satre think fest jazz album, but fortunately they sound like they are having fun doing this, so they just about stay the right side of that.
Very funky in places, and with the opening a direct lift from Bruce Lee's: Enter The Dragon (But with a few notes changed to protect the innocent) it's really a homage to things they like, as with the Mission Impossible theme "Homage" they do on here. It does trip you up with the overtly Latin jazz which comes straight after the Bruce Lee opener, but as I say, go with it as it is upbeat.
There are a couple of tracks with French vocals and random abstract background shouts and conversations, some clipped film dialogue, and sci-fi squeaks and squiggles here and there.
Maybe you deal drugs from your manhattan penthouse living room, and wander about in your open dressing gown and floral under-crackers all day long while you tend the small mountain of cocaine on the chrome framed, glass topped coffee table next to the Uzi... This could also provide a suitable soundtrack for such a lifestyle as this.
Overall it sounds like it would sit nicely in a playlist with Massive Attack, Portishead, or especially the Ocean's 11 soundtrack... makes me wish I had an afro and ninja suit.
(Actually, the bonus 12" is much more laid back surprisingly, as usually, the 12" singles are frenetically remixed for the dance floor or the like, but it is a lot easier and more consistent than the album tracks, with a nice Santana-esque groove going on... worth getting just for that I'd say)
And if nothing else, the album has affected me so much it's made talk shit for the entirety of this brief "Review"!