Soul Coughing was an American experimental/alternative band from New York City, active primarily in the 1990s. Fronted by Mike Doughty, with Mark Degli Antoni (samples/keyboards), Sebastian Steinberg (double bass) and Yuval Gabay (drums), they blended funk, jazz, samples and spoken-word phrasing into a distinctive sound.

Known for blending funk, jazz, hip-hop/rap-influenced spoken delivery and sample-based production; their style has been described (and used by the band) as "deep slacker jazz."

DeBaser reviews celebrate Soul Coughing's singular 1990s NYC sound that mixes funk, jazz, samples and spoken-word phrasing. Ruby Vroom and El Oso receive particular praise; Irresistible Bliss is seen as a more polished, slightly tamer follow-up. A compilation of rarities is admired but viewed as uneven as an album.

For:Listeners of 1990s alternative/experimental rock, sample-based music, jazz-funk and adventurous pop.

 Truly incredible and practically indescribable music, unless one considers plausible the idea of a meeting in a third-rate club in the most opium-laden New York between Eric Dolphy and the Karate, that bastard Mingus accompanied by enlightened Morphine on the road to Damascus of a jazz metamorphosing into funk, bringing Gil Scott-Heron along.

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 Mike Doughty defined his group’s music with three words: "deep slacker jazz."

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 A perfect album, which I fell in love with from the first listen, and practically unreproducible live: it’s not surprising that soon after, they would break up, unable to follow up on such kaleidoscopic magnificence.

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 Irresistible Bliss is their second effort, and compared to the '94 debut (the masterpieceRuby Vroom), it shows a band trying to experiment in reverse: a slightly straightened sound, normalized according to a more pop standard.

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