The solid trio has made room for two new faces on this new release: a keyboard player and an English MC. “The Robot and The Chinese Shrimp”, which contains powerful hip-hop strains, reflects Fumuj’s new identity, a much stronger one. MC Miscellaneous, vigorously accompanied by the four musicians, delivers spontaneous and generous flows on five of the album's twelve tracks. From catchy hooks to sharp rhyme-play, from vindictive (“Killers”, “We live in”, “Fuck”) to poetical themes (“Tic toc tic toc”), and even light and funky verses (“Play my fucking shit”), he explodes his vocal diversity in a rather disconcerting way. With this new album, Fumuj drags us into an effective patchwork teeming with sounds, always on the run. Get ready to confront the richness and strangeness of their world, and gently walk along the thin border closely linking sound to music. When this journey comes to its end, you may, at last, get the impression of reaching what one can qualify as “the essential”...