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Taken from Rolling Stone Music (Sep 21, 2010)

The Sound of Sunshine by Michael Franti and Spearhead

by Will Hermes


Michael FrantiMichael Franti and Spearhead
The Sound of Sunshine
Capital/Boo Boo Wax

"They can take away my job but not my friends," sings Michael Franti on his new disc, which suggests a musical activist's job - especially in hard times - is about celebration as much as agitation.


Coming after a hit single ("Say Hey [I Love You]") and a near-fatal ruptured appendix in 2009, Franti's most poppy album yet is full of reggae hybrids and his best stab at arena rock: "I'll Be Waiting," with a riff flipped, hip-hop-style, from U2's "Bad." Franti owes the Irishmen some pints.

 
 

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