 Floyd Cruse & Darkstar Band
 Album Of The Year
 Review by Larry Toering

Floyd Cruse is a Portland artist who's been kicking around a while, although this was the first I’d heard him. It just goes to show whats lurking in the northwest, besides the abundance of great artists at any glance. There is everything here from r&b and jazz, to blues, rock, soul and harder funk factors with an Island vibe thrown in. Album Of the Year is actually Cruse’s debut record. Lately Cruse has been seen on the TV show “Portlandia,” as well as getting out to perform the material featured here, along with great covers that blend as if they're his own. There isn't one bad cut to speak of on this classy piece of work from a veteran gent of the NW music scene.
This review is available in book format (hardcover and paperback) in Music Street Journal: 2012 Volume 3 at lulu.com/strangesound.
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