This is the finest Australian psychedelic-jazz-funk album I have ever heard.<\/p>\n
OK, you caught me. This is the only Australian psychedelic-jazz-funk album I have ever heard, at least as far as I know. But I\u2019ve been on a bit of a jazz-funk kick lately, especially when I cook, so I figured it was worth checking out. <\/p>\n
The seven songs here have a light jazz touch and an old-school feel, with rubberband basses and high-register vocals; there are also synthesizer swaths and deft percussion touches everywhere. There\u2019s also a distinctly European feel to the whole affair, from the disco beats and electronica to the chill of the music; it sounds impressive, but it rarely has soul.<\/p>\n
\u201cMusica\u201d and opener \u201cForever\u201d are the best of the bunch; the others start to run together in a haze after a while. The instrumental title track is far too long at nine minutes for what it offers, while \u201cFuture Life\u201d goes for a slightly darker undertone than its cheerful counterpart \u201cYourself,\u201d though neither is particularly arresting. <\/p>\n
Closer \u201cReturn to Centaurus\u201d is nearly 10 minutes, with some Pink Floydian soundscapes, gradually opening up into a slow-yet-pulsating disco piece, the shiny glitter sprinkling around, Daft Punk on downers. It ends an album that\u2019s smooth and shiny, with no edges and no real core. <\/p>\n
So maybe it\u2019s the worst Australian psychedelic jazz-funk album I have ever heard? I don\u2019t know. But Chorus <\/i>is hardly a calling card for the genre, and unless you want something to put on in the background that will be forgotten the next day, you can likely skip this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":34990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10950],"rating":[11204],"class_list":["post-46862","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-mildlife","rating-rating-c-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46862"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}