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- Summary: This is not your ordinary jazz trio. For their major-label debut, The Bad Plus work with alt-rock producer Tchad Blake, and include covers of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Blondie's "Heart of Glass," and Aphex Twin's "Flim" among their seven original tracks.
- Record Label: Sony / Columbia
- Genre(s): Jazz
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Positive: 14 out of 16
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Mixed: 2 out of 16
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Entertainment WeeklyWith equal measures of beauty, terror, and comedy in their own stuff, there's plenty going on besides stunt covers. [2 May 2003, p.71]
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The Bad Plus plies a refreshingly playful, forcefully dynamic, and knowingly irreverent sensibility that stretches the boundaries of the format without dislodging the music from its foundation.
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UncutThe band achieve an impressive impact with a wide dynamic range. [Jun 2003, p.109]
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MojoThis is exhilarating stuff. [Mar 2003, p.111]
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Their songbook bravado and grip of extreme dynamics are vividly caught in the poleaxed cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
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This is a hard, focused album that should both piss off and impress the jazz and rock clientele in equal measures.
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The cover of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” is pretty inventive.... Unfortunately for the group, the album doesn’t approach these moments of sublimity nearly enough.
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