
Six years doesn’t seem like a long enough break for a band to have a comeback, but the energy on King Khan and the Shrines' Merge debut,
Idle No More, is effectively the same as a comeback album.
King Khan still has the same rip-roaring grooves, although they are cleaned up and sounding fresh thanks to strings, horns, and crisper production.
Idle No More takes the garage party out of the garage and moves it onto the stage.
The record has a lot of range. It starts out with the bold, Hendrix-tinged “Born to Die” and seamlessly progresses to the make-you-wanna-shout, rump shaking Otis Redding-inspired “Luckiest Man” a few songs later.