Product Description The Secret B-Sides are all about flying saucers, dinosaurs, and love! Review Claiming to be interested in three things love, dinosaurs and flying saucers The Secret B-Sides seem to enjoy cultivating an image as off-beat and eclectic as their music. Part R&B, part hip-hop, and extremely funky, The Secret B-Sides are back on the scene with Flowers & Chocolate, a sexy, sultry and smooth homage to love (as well as an homage to making love). With a heapin' helpin' of old-school soul, some great wordsmithing, and an upbeat vibe that never falters (even on the down-tempo tunes), Flowers & Chocolate is nothing if not a huge amount of fun. It's a fantastic follow-up to Live On The Mother Ship, and it's fun to see the musical growth in these guys, a very talented group of musicians who work very well together as a single unit. The proverbial icing on the cake (no doubt chocolate) is the variety of guest musicians who grace it with their own unique talents. With collaborators such as Chach, Agent 23, The Southern Silk Duo, Sidney Barnes and Preach Jacobs, The Secret B-Sides have created a diverse collection of tunes that stand solidly as one single, funk-tastic piece of work. And with nicely arranged, hugely danceable songs and an eager, devil-may-care musical sensibility, I like where these guys are heading. --Bold Life: Western North Carolina's Arts and Culture MonthlyThis Asheville staple combines a smooth, jazzy horn section with the sounds of rhythm and blues and hip-hop. The name of the band's latest release, Flowers & Chocolate, perfectly embodies the Secret B-Sides classy sensuality and often romantic cadences. With its bizarre faux history and band mythology involving flying saucers and dinosaurs, you can think of the Secret B-Sides as a modern-day Bootsy's Rubber Band. --Mountain Xpress: Asheville & Western North CarolinaIn their studio debut, Flowers & Chocolate, Asheville quartet The Secret B-Sides brings soulful horn and woodwind harmonies, saucy hip-hop drum breaks, consonant baselines, and spacey keyboard effects into orbit around the dulcet voice of singer-songwriter Juan Holladay, whose light, flirtatious lyrics ooze authentic tenderness. While the B-Sides ethereal charm will appeal to devotees of funk, soul, and classic R&B, Flowers & Chocolate has something for fans of hip-hop, too, with local lyricists Secret Agent 23 Skidoo and Preach Jacobs contributing rap vocals on Rap n Roll and On to You. From nostalgic, summery songs like That 60s Show to propulsive dance grooves like Ergonomics, the B-Sides impassioned but mellow mix is best enjoyed with a bottle of wine. --WNC Magazine: Mountain Living in Western North Carolina