Opening track Good Lava is outstanding, a jagged, dissonant guitar attack under which the bass romps and over which the vocal is dancing gloriously in swoons and staccato mixes, a chorus linking. This is complex and virtuoso by Spalding, on that bass and singing. I have been listening to the album for some time, enjoying too much to review.
This is followed by a slower, mellower Unconditional Love,
the bass laying longer pulsing notes, and Spalding still moving up and down her
vocal register, a soul caress compared with the opening hot jazz. By this stage
I would normally be mentioning precursor sounds, and you can hear echoes, but
this is so fresh and pleasing I’m not. Third Judas takes us into a bass-walking
jazz stroll, solo vocal and spurts of vocal chorus again mingled and complementary.
Fourth Earth to Heaven pumps again, more complexities in vocal run-a-rounds and
shifting paces that impress.
It is just all so good. All of it just so good. So good,
just all of it.
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