This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Latin Playboys, the latest in the long list of Los Lobos offshoots, features David Hidalgo and Louie Perez, along with gringo partners Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake, who produced the band’s watershed Kiko album.
Although it’s the second Playboys outing (hence the double-entendre title), Dose essentially picks up right where Kiko left off, with these musical mad scientists offering up a freaky Frankenstein monster of styles, sounds and sources. As flamenco guitar meets spoken word, trip-hop goes Mexicali, tape loops duel with buzzy, fuzzy guitars and surf twang bounces off pot-’n’-pan percussion. This Dose of intriguing weirdness is like a border radio broadcast from the Twilight Zone.
