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The Afterlife Image
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83

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6.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

  • Summary: The second full-length release in 2019 for the British jazz trio was recorded at the same sessions as Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery and features a guest appearance from poet Joshua Idehen.
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  • Record Label: Decca
  • Genre(s): Experimental, Jazz, Modern Jazz, Experimental Electro, Experimental Dub, Electro-Acoustic, Spiritual Jazz, Electric Jazz
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Mojo
    Nov 25, 2019
    80
    This time, the quieter moments are more keenly affecting. [Jan 2020, p.89]
  2. Nov 25, 2019
    80
    Cut during the same sessions as Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery, it's not a collection of outtakes or even a sequel, but a holistic mirror image that comes from the same sphere of aesthetic investigation and font of inspiration.
  3. Q Magazine
    Dec 17, 2019
    80
    A work very much bigger than the sum of its parts. [Feb 2020, p.108]
  4. Uncut
    Nov 25, 2019
    80
    Poet Joshua Idehen adds desperate, apocalyptic testimony to the opening of "All That Matters Is The Moments," while "The Lifeforce Part I" and "II" gradually dial up the intensity, Hutchings blowing with dervish energy as drums and synth lock into a spiraling groove. [Jan 2020, p.25]
  5. 80
    The trio remain in a tradition of avant gardists such as Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane and Can, but totally of the now. One of 2019’s best.
  6. The Wire
    Dec 9, 2019
    80
    London based trio The Comet Is Coming unleash their finest yet, letting rave electronics, jazz funk and a dancefloor directed low end meet and mingle and mash, again suffusing everything with a positivist but markedly apocalyptic mysticism. [Jan 2020, p.71]
  7. Nov 25, 2019
    76
    There’s something in the way the Comet Is Coming skewers the typical jazz trio that stands apart from his other projects. Its surface speaks to the cosmic sounds of Sun Ra, but there’s something raw and earthy at the core.
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