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The Meters: The World’s First Metric Funk Band

Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 5 June 1976

Cissy Strut! What a great evocation of the Meters in that title, their second Island album, a kind of Greatest Hits, that’s blasting through the cans at this precise instant for spot-on mood observation.

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