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Funk: so many guitar bands flirt with it, but don’t dare to go full throttle and get down. Maybe it’s the old cliché about white boys and dancing. The Whitest Boy Alive are, presumably, aware of this, and comfortable with the stereotype.

As it happens, they are rather funky indeed; perhaps their previous incarnation as an electro band had something to do with it. Hailing from Berlin, the band mixes grooves inspired by modern dance music with the Funkadelic days of yore (i.e. the Seventies). Octave leaping bass and jazzy drums are augmented by a welcome blast from the past; a...