The album takes a casual easygoing approach that marries Brickell's laid-back songs with the skills of the seasoned session professional musicians.[6][7] The album consists of a certain amount of improvisation. The first song, a one-minute tune called "Meat on Your Bones", was spontaneously written and recorded, setting a tone of not taking the recording of the music too seriously for the first few songs, aiming for loose, spontaneous, and inviting, creating a playful band dynamic.[1][8][2] Gadd, who is the de facto bandleader, reports that the song creation process has Brickell creating songs, and the rest of the band develop the ideas, inspiring music of the others. Brickell reports that the band transforms the song into something with a lot more personality than she had conceived.[9] Brickell found that working with The Gaddabouts inspired a joy of music creation because instead of playing a song 50 times, with the seasoned crew they could develop the song they wanted in one take, keeping everything as live as possible in the studio. Gadd had a goal of preserving the magic of first takes when developing the album.[9]
Pedro Martínez – batá, bongos, congas, timbales, güiro, vocals
Axle Tosca – piano, vocals
Andrea Zahn – violin
Mike Mainieri – marimba, orchestra bells, vibraphone
Bob Mallory, Roy Hendrickson, Kirk Imamura, Tyler Hartman – ambient sounds, mumblings for "Horse's Mouth"
Ingrid Ingrate, Greta Kline, Lulu, Bob Mallory, Pedro Martinez, Axle Tosca, Steve Gadd, Pino Palladino, Ronnie Cuver, Andy Fairweather Low – vocals on "Corruption"
^ abcLook Out Now! (CD liner). The Gaddabouts. United States: Racecarlotta Records. 2012. RACE 003.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
