I was in a high school jazz band with Kneebody drummer Nate Wood. Lil' trivia for ya.
Kneebody's a knotty little jazz/rock/[?] outfit with some real clean little hitches in their sound. They played mindblowing backup to Busdriver back in 2000something, and now here they are with The Weather collaborator Daedelus -- full circle.
The combination's an incredibly fluid, winding sound: gentle slashes of horns, rocksolid skitter from Wood, with subtle touches from Daedelus. It's jazz rendered otherworldly by unclear means - beautiful, trippy, hooky, as close to early Sigur Ros as that cover alien might suggest, albeit from other angles entirely. And then again and again that jazz spills over genre levees into ambient territory that's more Daedelus's purview, into some unholy rockist hybrid, until the whole plain floods.
I'm a big fan of anything that defies categorization, that thwarts reverse engineering - this fits the bill nicely. Fans of pretty, adventurous stuff will have a good time failing to tease this apart 4/5
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