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MojoThe band make each piece their own on this, their most satisfying set for years. [Dec 2008, p.102]
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Bringing in an unknown vocalist, Minneapolis alt-rocker Wendy Lewis, may sound like a risk, but it works exceedingly well.
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This is one of the most compelling releases yet by one of the new jazz's finest bands to emerge in the 21st century.
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For All I Care adds vocalist Wendy Lewis to the line-up of pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer David King, and though it inches the Bad Plus closer to the pop mainstream, it never loses the particular rhythmic and harmonic quirks that have defined them so far.
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On their sixth CD, the inventive Minneapolis trio court disaster by adding a vocalist. Thankfully, she's Wendy Lewis, an indie-rock vet who floats Kurt Cobain's numbed equivocations over a capsizing groove here on "Lithium" and even nails that bone-chilling scream.
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If this all sounds like a dog’s breakfast of sound, it is--the tunes themselves only occasionally work.