Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery (studio album) by The Comet Is Coming

From AAL2014 04/23/2023 04:17

Just discovered these guys today and listened to both of their first two albums. The debut is an enjoyable record and very good through portions, but it’s pretty remarkable how much more in control of their ideals and identity they seem on this effort.

The production is better (what it might lack in color from the debut, it more than makes up for that with its confidence), the hooks are deeper and more musical, and the track list offers much more of a focused vision to what this kind of music can do and how powerful it can be.

Reaaaallly liking this one.

So happy to see this Jazz-Psychedelic album, hope to see more of this band in the future and how the evolve

From mdbaxter 02/01/2020 16:01

Decent album. Kind of sounds like if Lin-Manuel Miranda listened to Death Grips. Which I don’t mean as a diss I love Hamilton and Death Grips. The sax is nice.

Nice to hear ,in 2019, a neo-psychedelia record.

Good album.

B+

From Cargusbralem 05/08/2019 20:28

Can't say I've listened to anything like this before, but I enjoyed it. It's like a couple of jazz musicians wandered into a Sci-Fi movie.

From SaulCortes1992 05/01/2019 06:47

Wholesome

A triumph of modern jazz.

My brain was struggling to compute everything at one point. Definitely one of the more challenging albums of the year. Overall, I think I liked it.

Shabaka Hutchings, the ubiquitous figure in London's burgeoning experimental jazz scene, is back. When he is not involved with Shabaka and The Ancestors or his quartet Sons of Kemet, the thirty-year-old saxophonist and clarinettist enjoys venturing into the confines of cosmic jazz with his extraterrestrial trio The Comet is Coming. In these interstellar groove storms, he takes the name King Shabaka and surrounds himself with drummer Maxwell Hallett (Betamax Killer) and keyboardist Dan Leavers (Danalogue The Conqueror). After the album "Channel The Spirits" and an EP, the extraterrestrial trio today unveils a second cosmic album. In the footsteps of Sun Ra or Alice Coltrane, The Comet is Coming alternates spiritual-jazz, free jazz eruptions, burning electronic groove and transcendental stellar strolls. The trio invites on a track the English rapper and poet Kate Tempest. A fusion of genres guided by a permanent quest for new sound territories and spirituality. I really was transcended by listening to this magnificent record, Shabaka really imposes itself as one of the most important figures of Nu Jazz. And yes, even if it's not the genre I listen to the most, jazz is for me the most important musical genre of our time.
 
9/10

Best track: "Summon The Fire"