Feeling low? Listen to this Cape Town-based five-piece instrumental band and their infectious, upbeat music. If it doesn't lift your spirits immediately, you should see a psychiatrist. The musicians came together in 2009 at a Balkanology party and their debut album is obviously influenced by the rhythmic music of the south- eastern European countries.
NOMADIC ORCHESTRA: MOVE YOUR THINGS
The Nomadic Orchestra is made up of Joe Bolton on tuba, Gabriel Du Toit on tenor saxophone, Greg Abrahams on guitar, Marlon Witbooi on drums and James McClure on trumpet. - Jackie May
BACKSTREET BOYS: IN A WORLD LIKE THIS
This is the first Backstreet Boys album to feature Kevin Richardson since his departure from the band in 2006.
They might have been boys in 1995, when they released their first single, We've Got it Goin' On, which served to define their funk-pop sound, but they are now middle-aged men.
And it shows.
In a World Like This is overproduced, auto-tuned and virtually indistinguishable from any other generic boy band pop.
Redeemed only slightly by moments of occasional foot-tapping, the album is broadly bland and vacuous and the lyrics are riddled with banal ''triumph of love" platitudes.
Die-hard Backstreet Boys fans may go gaga for it. Everyone else will shrug their shoulders.
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