
Aside from a few stellar tracks I pretty much missed Feuermusik 's 2007 critically acclaimed debut, Goodbye Lucille . It is for that reason that I wanted to get in early when it came to No Contest , their brand new sophomore release. Even the most cursory listen to the Toronto experimental jazz outfit reveals something that is obviously not what I would usually have reverberating through the ol' cans-yet at the same time I can't help but want to hear more. There's just such an expert balance between the jagged and the smooth-the comfortable [...]