Rating includes the bonus track "Puppet's Strange Vision" from the re-issue as a bonus disc to some exclusive edition of their record "In a Flesh Aquarium"
I need more such modern jazz - that sounds neither like a rehearsal nor is it an easy-listening (over-simplifying the more musical side of modern jazz here, talking about - to be more exact - these recent Zorn's releases with a duo or a trio of guitars, which isn't even something new in his discography). This is not only free jazz, nor is it just "fusion", but I like to call such jazz progressive - with the rappers sprinkled all over - amazing!
Surprisingly less irritating than most of what I've heard by these guys, because is 100% instrumental. Last track is nice detour into relaxing skeletal stripped-down "world" (preferring the term "folk" myself) music, which they always play - but here it's not too noisy in comparison to lots of such other examples in their discography. The rest of the material seemed kinda sparse with mostly generally guitar and drums (maybe my speakers didn't play me the ... read more
"Pony Whip" is even humorous!
Peace be upon your soul, SOPHIE
Was the interpolation of a partial somewhat unpleasantly to me sung weirdly auto-tuned cover of Pixies' "Where is My Mind?" really that necessary
It seems that this guy has as much art rap albums as he has random cinematic jazz-influenced industrial mixtapes (not that I mind!)
Interesting jungle/drill and bass+electric lap steel guitar experiment, but probably this combination would not appeal to all fans of outlandish genres-blending
I like the glitches on "Watching T.V.", the ending of "Tunnel Vision" and all the similar "wacky" sound examples that might have escaped me on the first listen - but I definitely will not revisit this soon only in order to maybe find some tiny tidbits of music that I'd like.
Started off strong and after "Aftermath" started to derail for me, with a few exceptions at the end
![billy woods - Camouflage [Re-release]](https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/100x0/album/1050684-camouflage-re-release_203351.jpg)
One of the more normal records by billy woods, which is to be expected considering this is his debut
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