The Voodoo Music Experience starts Friday. Just time for a little bit of last minute housecleaning this week.

Thievery Corporation: Radio Retaliation (Eighteenth Street): The revolution will never sound more bourgeois, as this Washington, D.C. duo present a high-gloss, jetsetter’s exotica in support of politically charged vocals by Seu Jorge, Femi Kuti, Sleepy Wonder, Chuck Brown and many more. The parade of vocalists makes the Corp seem like abacking band, and the arrangments heighten that sense. Despite the Corp’s DJ backgrounds, “Sound the Alarm” isn’t nearly as dubwise or clubby as it could – and should – be, and the backing tracks behind sitar player Anushka Shankar sound perfectly appropriate. They seem content to hide the methods of production and mask as a studio band from pre-hip-hop days. As such, the bets are hedged – not so much that I’m not curious how this will play out live, but it’s hard to imagine Thievery Corporation being anyone’s favorite band.

Thievery Corporation plays Saturday at 5:20 p.m. on the Playstation Stage.