BadBadNotGood - III

May 6th, 2014.

Innovative Leisure

The third album in the BBNG series sees BADBADNOTGOOD tap into their own moody malaise and pull out a dimly lit, and ultimately passion fuelled 48-minute dirge. BBNG III sees BBNG dip into completely original material territory; the litmus test for a bands/artists real quality is what comes from their own creative spring. Cover songs - although BBNG's were done with real twists and creative fervour - can be done until the day's end, but they don't really prove anything. 

A foresight into the future of music; a space where it still feels like music can hopefully one day get to; an amalgamation of the best bits of all that there is - an update and refreshing take on the conventional. A future that we may never get to, but it's good to be hopeful for. Jazz and instrumental Hip-Hop converge on a well-balanced seesaw of mercurial temperament.

Leland Whitty - who features on 'Confessions' - would join the band later on down the line in 2016 for their fourth in the BBNG series and add another dynamic to their already dynamically and progressively sprung sound. You can see why Whitty's Sax skills were brought on board. The feel and emotive cadence shown on Confessions is something of infinite quality and passion. Like a genetic drip passed down through sonic experience, it will remain in music DNA forever more - straight from that universal ooze; tied to something 'other'.

Introspective. Smoke-y and reminiscent. Pondering. Searching. Open to fun, but unwilling to let go of the stern stature. The soul's at a stalemate. Keen but mean. A smile with a snarl - a menacing grin.

Beats and feeling blue. No words. Just wounds. 

The BBNG boys were on something else.

I had the lovely opportunity to see BADBADNOTGOOD on their tour in support of III. They played The Pavilion in Cork, Ireland, on the 23rd of May 2014.