One of Seattle’s best bands… create a rarefied strain of psychedelic, soulful jazz that exists in that cool, sweet zone where the music of Lonnie Liston Smith, Medeski, Martin + Wood, and Spiritualized at their most abstract intersect.
September 19, 2014, The Stranger
Psychedelic soul-jazz shapeshifters Afrocop… really make this an essential visit.
April 19, 2014, The Stranger
Seattle trio Afrocop continue to pump out the sonic coolness… a brooding beauty of spectral jazz funk, reinforcing my belief that Afrocop are one of Seattle’s most engrossing and subliminally psychedelic bands.
October 21, 2013, The Stranger
The Afrocop keyboardist takes us on a journey that feels like the soundtrack to a space explorer’s first steps onto an alien planet.
April 9, 2013, The Seattle Weekly
They’re local exemplars of the sort of emotionally stirring, eclectically virtuosic modus operandi that Medeski Martin & Wood have taken to festival-sized fame and fortune. Afrocop are approaching that level of mastery.
March 20, 2013, The Stranger
An excellent mix of nostalgic jamming and futuristic exploration… one of their best qualities as a group is their drive to push their limits as musicians.
February 17, 2013, The Seattle Weekly
These guys… mercurially shift from turbulent post-bop jazz to high-IQ’d funk to deep ambient meditativeness with supreme poise.
February 4, 2013, The Stranger
‘Soulgazer’ number 1 brings us a psychedelic, dystopian soundtrack for the Midnight hour.
January 28, 2013, KEXP Sonarchy Radio
A Fusion Supreme: Seattle Musicians Wax Ecstatic About Miles Davis’s ‘On the Corner’.
October 31, 2012, The Stranger
Cherish these suave groove magicians…
May 26, 2012, The Stranger
In substituting mood for groove, Brass has created a style-defining album.
May 15, 2012, The Seattle Weekly
A loose, expansive strain of funk informed by jazz and post rock… Gospel, Afrobeat, and psychedelia also figure into Afrocop’s open-minded approach.
