Let’s be perfectly honest: there is little here to distinguish Sugar Sugar Whomp Whomp from most of the other funk and brass band recordings.

However, that does not mean this isn’t a good record. The Funky Butt Brass Band plays with enthusiasm, and if you put this on at a crawfish boil, people are going to get down and get their backfield in motion.

Although billed as a brass band, their lineup includes a trap set and a guitar, so their sound is more funky and less brass band.

Their riffs are tighter than most of the street brass bands in New Orleans, but the songs at times feel like they are fulfilling a brass band template instead of working off their own experiences.

They could use a little more grease and a little less of rhyming “New Orleans” with “red beans.”

When they add extra brass to end the CD with “I’ll Fly Away” the energy of having more players elevates the track above much of the rest of the CD. Another stand out track is warning of “River Despair.”

This cut has the distorted, heavy, ominous vibe that funk bands from Funkadelic to the Budos Band to Afroskull have mined to great effect.

Sugar Sugar Whomp Whomp is a fine party record, but it is not much more than that.