File under: track names which are going to be annoying to repeat. But also under, videos I’m glad I got to premiere since they give me an excuse to talk about sick bands. Alarmist are the latest jazz-y craze from the brilliant people over at Art as Catharsis and Small…
With a name like Mythic Sunship (stemming from Sun Ra’s Of Mythic Worlds and Coltrane’s Sun Ship, a psychedelic jazz pedigree if there ever was one) it’s really no surprise that the best way to describe the band is with the word “journey”. Mythic Sunship channel the kind of vibes that meld…
Welcome back to Jazz Club! It’s been a while since the three of us (Jimmy, Nick and Scott) sat down to dissect the one of our favorite genres, which was most recently a conversation about BADBADNOTGOOD’s excellent 2016 album IV. In that discussion, we tossed around the idea of pooling together a list of some of our favorite new jazz releases, something we’re excited to finally begin today with our first installment of Jazz Quarterly. This is also offering us an opportunity and excuse to get ourselves back in the habit of listening to new jazz regularly, which, if you’re anything like at least a couple of us (namely Nick) has been something we’ve been meaning to get back into for far too long. There are a few places now that offer some great monthly curated lists like Bandcamp, Stereogum, and more, and you’ll likely notice that a bunch of these selections are pulled from there because they provide a valuable resource for even supposed “curators” such as ourselves. As each of us prefers different flavors of the genre, you’ll find an eclectic list of recommendations below, ranging from more traditional offerings to experimental blends of jazz with Indian classical music, doom metal sensibilities, electronic music, progressive rock and much more. We’d be genuinely shocked if you can’t find at least one release worth your time from this list, so without wasting any more time, feel free to dive in to the best the genre’s had to offer so far this year.
Last week we published a pretty extensive analysis of Real Enemies, the latest album from Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, taking a long look at its extensive use of America’s long and complex history of conspiracy theories through the lens of contemporary politics. Though that sparked some back-and-forth in the comments on…
The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms—he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization. He constantly lives at a turning point. The above quote is an excerpt from…
If there’s something you’d like to take away from my time writing for the blog, soon to be three years, it is this: no music exists in a void. Even the most extreme of releases or the most isolated of works are influenced by and, in turn, influence other works…
