Five Alarm Funk, Breadbox

From Vancouver, B.C., riding on a wave of trumpet and sax licks, conga drums and irrepressibly bouncing bass lines, comes Five Alarm Funk, an eight-piece, mostly instrumental group that synthesizes Latin, African and ska beats with straight-up, no-frills R&B. They’ve been at it from more than a decade now, which has given them plenty of time to find their groove. The band’s most recent album, Sweat, certainly lives up to its title: It’s an all-night dance party condensed into an hour-long record, paced just right so that you don’t blow all your energy right at the top and full of jams that promise to unspool late into the evening.