wowzers! only a couple of days left in 2021!
Struth! what a fucking beauty! I need to take a shower and dig this before the end!
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...
my god... it's new years eve and I really feel that this fucker is going to TAKE IT! -When I think back to 2018 and that Aaron Parks album and how, in October/Nov having just finished uni, I went to Brisbane for a week or two to catch up with mangs and see opera etc, memories of train rides and walking through towns (and along waterways in Coloundra) are like now, an echo in my mind when I hear that fucker... so to, I can imaging this time of flux (inbetween jobs/ending of a shit year of resentful I hate my job and my life is a little bit complicated by a few things) -this album is going to transition me into 2022/into new job/away from previous job/training week in Sydney/new chapter/version of me... Yes it is. I think we have a winner!
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