Piano trio The Bad Plus have garnered glowing accolades with imaginative, jazzy renditions of Aphex Twin, Blondie, and Radiohead cuts — and while their forthcoming record Prog caters to the cover lovers (including “Everybody Wants To Rule The World,” “Life On Mars,” and a killer take on Rush’s “Tom Sawyer”), their compositional (and comping) skills are impressing our ears this week. Take “Physical Cities,” a nine-plus minute opus of ascending piano arpeggios; lush, slow-morphing tempo shifts; and balls-out open-hat rock grooves.
The Bad Plus – “Physical Cities” (MP3)
Chew on the displaced beats and odd-timed monotone vamps, and we’ll get ya a listen of one of those covers soon.
Prog is out 5/8 on Heads Up.
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The guy in the middle looks like part of the submarine crew in that submarine movie.
That had Bon Jovi in it.
the best band i have EVER seen live, bar none. and fun, too. amazing stuff, submarine crew-man is dave king, one of the greatest drummers in the world.
this track is ace, too.
check out love-cars a pop-rock(!)-band with Dave King on drums, he surely is one of the greatest drummers in the world!