Industrial Jazz Group / Leef
| Album: | Leef | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Industrial Jazz Group | Added: | May 2008 | |
| Label: | Evander Music | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2008-06-29 | Pull Date: | 2008-08-31 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Aug 31 | Aug 24 | Aug 17 | Aug 10 | Aug 3 | Jul 20 | Jul 13 | Jul 6 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 13, 2017: | No Cover, No Minimum
Don't Let 'em Getcha |
4. | Aug 22, 2008: | Memory Select
Howl |
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| 2. | Sep 26, 2008: | Oatmeal
The Job Song |
5. | Aug 15, 2008: | Memory Select
Don't Let 'em Getcha (intro'd by "And Go") |
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| 3. | Aug 29, 2008: | Memory Select
The Job Song (Radio Edit) |
6. | Aug 05, 2008: | Streams, Highways Redux
Big Ass Truck (Radio Edit) |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2008-06-25
Reviewed 2008-06-25
Iconoclastic big band with rollicking charts, tight playing, and solid vocals that include swearing. Lots of fun. Occasional free-jazzy solos, but it's mostly accessible, with quick-paced tunefulness in multiphased songs that keep you on your toes. Mostly sourced from '50s R&B/doo-wop sounds, mixed with traditional swing. It doesn't sound like Frank Zappa's large bands but is coming from a similar place. Weird little interludes add a surreal touch (2,5,7,12).
vocals: 9,13(FCC),14(FCC),17,18
1/2- Lengthy, silly intro with crowd noise.
3: Cool, catchy riff with lots of off-kilter horns
4- Sneaky start, into big bouncing instrumental
5- Helium-voiced interlude
6- Multiphased. Fun but less manic than 3 or 15. Faux opera intro.
7- (spoken blip)
8- Off-balance horn lines, then kind of a mariachi chase scene. Goofy "yes I'm bad" vocals at the end.
9- Snarky stage-musical feel, about getting a real job
10- *FCC* i think... Interlude: randomness including words
11- Drunken swing. Maybe touches of klezmer.
12- Weird interlude
13- *FCC* many times. New agey piano; goofy narration
14- *FCC* one "what the fuck" ; Sultry song about getting chased by a truck. Crazy punk/clown drive at the end.
15- '50s doo-wop riff, into a fun fast instrumental. SEGUES:
16- Really goofy beer-hall warbling over piano. Ends with Zorn-like sax attack and lotsa applause.
17- Radio-safe version of 14
18- Edit of 9, although I think 9 is radio-safe to begin with
vocals: 9,13(FCC),14(FCC),17,18
1/2- Lengthy, silly intro with crowd noise.
3: Cool, catchy riff with lots of off-kilter horns
4- Sneaky start, into big bouncing instrumental
5- Helium-voiced interlude
6- Multiphased. Fun but less manic than 3 or 15. Faux opera intro.
7- (spoken blip)
8- Off-balance horn lines, then kind of a mariachi chase scene. Goofy "yes I'm bad" vocals at the end.
9- Snarky stage-musical feel, about getting a real job
10- *FCC* i think... Interlude: randomness including words
11- Drunken swing. Maybe touches of klezmer.
12- Weird interlude
13- *FCC* many times. New agey piano; goofy narration
14- *FCC* one "what the fuck" ; Sultry song about getting chased by a truck. Crazy punk/clown drive at the end.
15- '50s doo-wop riff, into a fun fast instrumental. SEGUES:
16- Really goofy beer-hall warbling over piano. Ends with Zorn-like sax attack and lotsa applause.
17- Radio-safe version of 14
18- Edit of 9, although I think 9 is radio-safe to begin with
Track Listing
| 1. | Ladies And Gentlemen | 10. | The Hotdog Hat | |||
| 2. | And Go | 11. | Howl | |||
| 3. | Don't Let 'em Getcha | 12. | Big Ass Preview | |||
| 4. | Pdx Lix Lax | 13. | Richardson's Road Poem | |||
| 5. | My Guitar | 14. | Big Ass Truck | |||
| 6. | Bongo Non Troppo | 15. | Fuck The Muck, Part 1 | |||
| 7. | What's Industrial Jazz? | 16. | Fuck The Muck, Part 2 | |||
| 8. | What's In Anne's Icebox? | 17. | Big Ass Truck (Radio Edit) | |||
| 9. | The Job Song | 18. | The Job Song (Radio Edit) |