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| 3.0 good | Bedex | November 16th 20 |
I don't know the backstory to this, but it very much feels like a compilation of disjointed sketches and Etudes. There is no continuity between tracks and the sequencing is really odd - the fun playful intro 1 going into the mysterious and slower 2 which is great in a vacuum but quite incongruous here, then followed by something much more experimental after a blank, then 4 is just someone practising the sax, what is happening. Thus as an album this fails quite heavily, even though some of the parts are great or at least interesting. 5 with its traditional sounding drums and interesting winds, 8 past its intro, 11 after the drummer got his practice down (and a track that ends out of nowhere showing yet another sequencing issue), and 13-14 are highlights, the rest is just skippable for the most part imo. 13 is an actual jazz tune for once not with just one instrument or two doing crab knows what, and 14 is a surprisingly great, minimalistic and melancholic piano track that makes for a surprisingly excellent album conclusion in a record that before that had no structure at all. Those two tracks just about bump this to a 2.8
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