The Rugged Nuggets

The Rugged Nuggets' Odds & Ends is a future classic of modern instrumental funk, released on Colemine Records (CLMN-12031) and steeped in West Coast cool. Recorded in the San Fernando Valley, the album captures a cinematic, low-rider-friendly blend of dusty drums, swaggering bass lines, soulful guitar licks and lush strings. Tracks like Rugged Walk, The Layover and Walking in the Rain evoke the golden era of deep funk with an updated sense of atmosphereÑsun-bleached, spacious and rhythmically irresistible. The production leans proudly analog, with tape-saturated drums and warm, unhurried grooves that sound tailor-made for sound systems and DJ sets. For fans of Daptone, El Michels Affair, Khruangbin or instrumental soul-jazz, Odds & Ends is the kind of front-to-back listen that turns casual spins into obsession and feels destined to become a crate-digging staple.