At the start of this, I was very excited. The first track sounds like it could be Coltrane's, and 2 is nicely weird with the jazz + the vocalist's laugh. 3 is mystique drums stuff, and 4 is weird jazz again. But at that point it started to transpire that Ludus kind of left out their usual post-punkey songwriting on this one and just went full avant-garde weirdcore. And while that was fine at first, especially given the music retained a decent proportion of jazz in it, as time goes on there's more and more downtime, blanks, weird stuff that is okay to listen to but that I really have zero drive to jam again. I have to concede I had veeery long interruptions through listening to this, so it's not totally fair of me to rate it, but there is also nothing here that makes me want to give it a second try. There is a bit of normal Ludus voice on 7, but then lots of weirdgarde downtime until 11 which has nice piano at least, and 13 which offers fun drum stuff. 14 is also interestingly weird, but 15 this gets really a bit long and the fact that there is no conclusion at all and that the album just kinda dies reinforce that feeling of once listened good forever. I'll be kind in rating in light of the poor conditions, so 3.3
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