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| The Bad Plus have been road-testing this material - which expands on their regular habit, that of exposing pop hits to jazz improv, and including modern classical themes by Ligeti, Milton Babbitt and Stravinsky - but not with the inclusion of Minneapolis indie-rock singer Wendy Lewis. Lewis handles the pop themes here (including Nirvana's Lithium, Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb, Wilco's Radio Cure and the Bee Gees' How Deep Is Your Love) before the trio muscles in with its assault of clanging, dissonant piano chords, fast bass counterpoint and thunderous percussion. Comfortably Numb hauntingly sets Lewis's sinister whisper against Reid Anderson's emphatic basswork before the song builds in rippling piano figures and sonorous vocal duet harmonies. Ligeti's music darts, zigzags and chatters, Babbitt's Semi-Simple Variations is an oscillation of needling treble figures and the fearsome unison of drums and melody, and Stravinsky's Variation d'Apollon has a Jacques Loussier-like elegance. Radio Cure is a sinister dirge, How Deep Is Your Love is reharmonised as a yearning sleepwalk, and Barracuda jolts along like a truck on a bumpy road. There's less jazz improv, but it's a set that's going to find the Bad Plus a lot of new friends, and recover some old ones. |
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- Lithium
- Comfortably Numb
- Fem (Edute No. 8)
- Radio Cure
- Long Distance Runaround
- Semi-Simple Variations (Babbitt)
- How Deep Is Your Love
- Barracuda
- Lock, Stock and Teardrops
- Variation d'Apollon (Stravinsky)
- Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
- Semi-Simple Variation (Alternate Version)
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