Yes, you do know that face: In another life — it was literally a lifetime ago — Moore was better known as Dr. Madd Vibe, the frenetic personality that drove the groundbreaking funk/alternative band Fishbone. Playing under his own name with crack band The Brand New Step, Moore now works closer to the bone of O.G. Sly Stone’s streetwise politico-soul than just about anyone else working today (but he’d be in great company with Cody Chesnutt or Charles Bradley). For those of us who had a hard limit on how much Fishbone we could take, Moore coming straight from the heart at long last is a really great (and still very fun) revelation.

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