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  • Summary: The jazz trio introduces vocals by Wendy Lewis on its latest album of cover songs.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. This is one of the most compelling releases yet by one of the new jazz's finest bands to emerge in the 21st century.
  2. Bringing in an unknown vocalist, Minneapolis alt-rocker Wendy Lewis, may sound like a risk, but it works exceedingly well.
  3. Mojo
    80
    The band make each piece their own on this, their most satisfying set for years. [Dec 2008, p.102]
  4. If this all sounds like a dog’s breakfast of sound, it is--the tunes themselves only occasionally work.
  5. There's less jazz improv, but it's a set that's going to find the Bad Plus a lot of new friends, and recover some old ones.
  6. Uncut
    60
    Here they continue their mission with bashes at Wilco, Pink Floyd, and a straight-but-great take on Yes' 'Long Distance Runaround.' [Dec 2008, p.81]
  7. In the end, For All I Care isn’t a bad album. It’s just a very unremarkable effort from a band that we’ve grown to expect so much more from.

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