Big Brass at the Disco

By Derek Beres

Shantel has accomplished the most daunting task imaginable in this genre: making an accessible pop record with tubas, trumpets and dumbeks, and our response remains among the greatest of human pleasures: we dance. [21 November 2007]

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Shantel: Bucovina Club Vol. 2

By Tim O'Neil

I find it remarkably difficult to judge whether or not this album is an exercise in crackpot genre-bending or legitimately visionary postmodernism. [16 August 2005]