Mike Pride - I Hate Work

 This is a special one.  Right now, all three available tracks are delightful and memorable.  For me, this is the kind of music that lingers.  I remember when that Aaron Parks album came out in 2018 and it became the soundtrack of finishing the uni I was doing.  It still takes me back to a lovely place.  I remember I went to Queensland and got drunk with my friends and went saw the opera and ate curry and walked along the beach in Coloundra.  This album sounds like it's going to do that.  It sounds like whatever's gonna happen this summer/christmas whatever, this album will take me back there.  It's chill, but it's got attitude too (thirwell doing vox on track 3 for example).  The piano makes it civilised and the recording sounds just right to become part of my eternal canon. This sense of space and time is exactly what I think Jazz should be.  If these guys played here every week, I'd never miss a show.  When I listen to this I get richer...  Very strong contender for 2021 (which has been a bit of a cock until now.  I'm taking control and reeling it in).  It's civilised and punk at the same time. -flashbacks of Process of Weeding Out (track 2)...