Gotta agree.  They seem like the first conscious attempt to market a band as aj 
(besides US3 who were really marketed more as a hip hop/r&b group).  I got a 
flyer advertising their cd and it set them up pretty well without ever using 
the words "acid jazz," but claiming the band was trying to mesh styles of hip 
hop, funk, jazz, and rock.  Sounds like it's straight out of some record exec 
meeting.  
On to the real thing, last night I heard the latest release by the Thievery 
Corporation on Eighteenth Street Lounge records and it was way cool.  More 
spacey sounds like the first realease.  Dig it!