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8.2 out of 10

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  • Summary: The rock-influenced piano trio's fifth album mixes originals with covers of songs by David Bowie ("Life On Mars"), Tears For Fears ("Everybody Wants To Rule The World") and Rush ("Tom Sawyer").

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  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Stylus Magazine
    83
    PROG, like all their recordings, is another collection of professionally played and well-produced tunes that present themselves to a potential mass audience with hectic grace, sober whimsy, fluent navigation of chaos and without the slightest shred of pomposity.
  2. All Music Guide
    80
    Anyone who has already decided that jazz is dead, that the great innovators have come and gone, needs to listen to the Bad Plus to be proven dead wrong.
  3. Amazon.com
    60
    It's not likely this music will age spectacularly well, but so what?

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  1. DarkoK.
    9
    Most accessible of all their current albums. Great versions of "This Guy's i Love with You" and "Everybody wants to Rule the World". These guys are tight!… Expand
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