#2569 Soft Machine - Third

A proper experimental record just by the way it paces its four jams for four sidelong ~19 minute rambletimes. Equal parts Zappa, Miles, and regular old jam band nonsense, these are rambling, looping, loping plodders - filled with enough interlock and hints of hookiness to keep you hazily bobbing for the hour+. Adventurous stuff, but it demands either close listening or total backgrounding - anything in between and it collapses into its own basic obnoxiousness 3.5/5