Fat Freddy’s Drop – Based On A True Story (2LP)

Internationally regarded as one of the world’s finest live draws, Fat Freddy’s Drop hail from New Zealand, South Pacific.
FFD has navigated its way from an incubator of sunshine reggae thru a colour-saturated field of soul psychedelia before swerving onto a desolate Detroit superhighway at night. It’s a potent mixture of jazz virtuosity and diaphragm-wrecking digital sonics.
‘Based On A True Story’ aka BOATS is the debut studio album from Fat Freddy’s Drop unleashed in May 2005. The album debuted at #1 and went Gold on its first release day in New Zealand, and won the band a stash of NZ Music Awards and a legion of fans worldwide. BOATS album features 10 fresh slices of future funk, with surprises, fakes & freaky sidesteps throughout. There are new versions of previously released singles like ‘This Room’, ‘Hope’ & ‘Ernie’ [also known as ‘Willow Tree’], alongside the recent 12 inch ‘Flashback’ & six completely new tracks, all mystic supernovas of soul.