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You know what? I think this is the most verbose and informative album cover I’ve ever seen at KEXP (including a full, song-by-song, review at the end). So I’m just going to let the KCMU staff take it away on this one, with nothing but a “KICK OUT THE JAAAAAAAMS!!!!” “Funkadelic made it to [...]

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