10lawrencej
Southampton, UK
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After listening to Albert Ayler play the saxophone, it will be tattooed onto your brain as the way an unadulterated horn should sound. All other styles are heresies; man diluting the divine into a secular gadget of light entertainment.
Coltrane could scream, Sanders could roar, but it was Ayler's ability to reach the religious ecstasy of speaking in tongues that marked him out as the Holy Ghost among The Father and The Son.
How can you say this isn't perfection. The improvisational nature of jazz means that something like this has the privilege of being documented.
Namely, hearing a group of the most talented musicians in the world work tirelessly to break new ground, birthing a blue print for jazz's wild future in real time.
Insanely solid, beautiful folk-rock from a master of the genre starting to reach their apex.
The beats are low-key, making Woods' lyrics shine through all the more pregnant with purpose and impact. Most tracks last no longer than 2 and a half minutes, but each one will have you poring over the lines as you would any great work of poetry / literature.
To paraphrase Pound, every artist should find a pure colour, and Woods' is exactly that. A pure colour, intense and brilliant.
It's great - the virtuosity is here in spades and you feel like they could bring out a fantastic album in any genre they choose. Last time it was post-punk/math rock, this go round they've made prog rock their own.
Only complaint is that sometimes their incredible playing gets blurred together by the mix, especially when they get loud like at the end of Dethroned.
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