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| 3.5 great | Bedex | July 17th 20 |
"Experimental" jazz band from BE? Count me in. This is very much a band that is looking for its own direction, finds it, loses it, and finds it again. The sequencing feels a bit chaotic. The opening trilogy is very well constructed, a dissonant blend of jazz and rock guitars that slowly descends into softness track by track up to the point of morphing into ambient on 3, only picking back up with a gentle inquisitive melody at 1:30. 4 is perhaps my favourite dig with Gallery Six -esque sound collages atop pretty guitar for a lovely ambient track. They should have cut it and made it an EP at this point, because the issues start here. The transition into the jazzy 5 is a awkward, although the reprise thereafter is nice and gentle, only to be abruptly broken by the abrasive rock intro to 6. I feel like the transition works surprisingly ok, but the song doesn't unfold well at all. 1 is in fact the only example of the band using distorted guitars which I liked. 7 feels pointless and like it just breaks the dynamics. I like avant garde bruitiste stuff but this is not where it belongs at all. 8 starts very well with more pretty ambient guitar, but then they start distorting and soloing over a background of nice ambient jazz, which is incongruous and just doesn't work. 9 is pretty guitar again to close on a somewhat ambient track. I feel like their next record, if they explore the directions they excel at, construct it better, and work on flow and transitions between tracks a little more could be really great ambient jazz. 3.3
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