Sunday 12 April 2015

Friday: Monobody - Lifeguard of a Helpless Body

     I'm going to stick with the vaguely jazzy pseudo-theme that's been running through the last week (or more) in choosing something a little more chill for your belated Friday song. Don't worry though, I'm not surreptitiously morphing this into an instrumental jazz blog, and we'll be back in more metal territory before you know it. And hey, your Thursday song was some old-school-meets-new-school death metal from Italy's Human Improvement Process, so quit complaining!

     Quit complaining and check out Chicago's Monobody, an instrumental electro-jazz quintet with the interesting quirk of having two bassists on much of their material. But don't look at it as something gimmicky; instead just get into one of the many cool grooves that either Al Costis or Steve Marek (or both!) lay down with drummer Nnamdi Ogbonnaya.

     There's a lot of fun stuff going on on Monbody's self-titled debut LP, making it a "must check out" for anybody who's into this kind of thing. And anybody who's not into this kind of thing should have a listen to album opener "Lifeguard of a Helpless Body" and get into this kind of thing, OK?

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