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Trollheart · 11-06-2017, 10:33 AM

Album title: Unfold
Artist: The Necks
Suggested by: Frownland
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz/Free Improvisation/Contemporary Jazz
Nationality: Australian
Release date: February 10
Position in Discography: Nineteenth
Fear Factor: High
Familiar with this artist? No
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No
Average RYM Score: 3.39
Whether this is supposed to disarm me or not, or just lull me into a false sense of security, there's a lovely piano and organ intro to the first track that is quite spacey, none (so far) of the frenetic, seemingly chaotic music that tends to characterise my poor understanding certainly of AGJ. Only four tracks, in fairness, but none of them under fifteen minutes, with the longest hitting twenty-one, so much to get through. Second one is more driven by what sounds like a church organ (some sort of organ anyway) with definitely a more jazzy tone than the opener. It's good stuff but 15-20 minutes of basically the same stuff is a little hard to take. It gets a bit boring at times. Good background music I guess. But I'm now halfway into the third track and I don't feel I can take another twenty minutes plus of this. Just too boring really.

Check out more from this artist? Probably not
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Again, probably not

Expectation Index: 3

11-06-2017, 10:33 AM	#866 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Album title: Unfold Artist: The Necks Suggested by: Frownland Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz/Free Improvisation/Contemporary Jazz Nationality: Australian Release date: February 10 Position in Discography: Nineteenth Fear Factor: High Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No Average RYM Score: 3.39 Whether this is supposed to disarm me or not, or just lull me into a false sense of security, there's a lovely piano and organ intro to the first track that is quite spacey, none (so far) of the frenetic, seemingly chaotic music that tends to characterise my poor understanding certainly of AGJ. Only four tracks, in fairness, but none of them under fifteen minutes, with the longest hitting twenty-one, so much to get through. Second one is more driven by what sounds like a church organ (some sort of organ anyway) with definitely a more jazzy tone than the opener. It's good stuff but 15-20 minutes of basically the same stuff is a little hard to take. It gets a bit boring at times. Good background music I guess. But I'm now halfway into the third track and I don't feel I can take another twenty minutes plus of this. Just too boring really. Check out more from this artist? Probably not Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Again, probably not Expectation Index: 3 __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018