“Big, bouncy, and fat.” That’s how BBC Radio 6 Music’s Craig Charles describes the Bristol-based funk duo the Allergies. Formed by DJ Moneyshot and Rackabeat, the pair have celebrated hit after hit– and not just singles, but full albums — an especially impressive feat in the streaming era. Not to be confused with neo-soul and funk, the duo employs their beatmaking skills to deliver a truly modern funk and soul sound, rich with loops, samples, and all manner of magic you also find on KUTX on Soundfounder.

Hot off their widely acclaimed 2024 album Freak the Speaker and having one of their songs appear in a season two episode of Severence comes “So Real,” a more melodramatic, emotional track, using bellowing jazz vocals to cut over their classic brand of funk-forward hip-hop beats, filling out a transcendent digital-meets-vintage experience a little remimenscent of Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig In the Sky.”

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