Far from being long in the tooth, their sixth album in 15 years finds them impressively and engagingly firing on all cylinders.

[xrr rating=3.5/5]“Badass” is my usual go to adjective for The Budos Band. They’re in the same league as the Souljazz Orchestra or Melt Yourself Down, proud providers of eclectic mixes of Motown soul, Blaxploitation film scores, spaghetti westerns and Afrojazz. But they don’t have the groovy hope of The Souljazz Orchestra, or the hallucinatory aspects of Melt Yourself Down. Instead, …