Un Jazz by Nu Jazz

For fans of Black Eyes, Cold Court, Torso Corso, dub, and the existential dread of hockey stick graphs in the age of acceleration, Un Jazz by Nu Jazz captures our emotional moment as something desperate, dark, and unpredictable, using a unique style of jazz fusion to combine punk-derived intensity, psychedelia-derived absurdism, and jazz-derived eccentricity. This record bristles with a nervous, anticipatory energy, embodying that awkward, gurgling stage of barely-boiling water just before all trends turn vertical and the old world shatters into a billion pieces. Even in the most minimal, solo-dominated moments on this record, a relentlessly dark, droning atmosphere persists, casting the shadow of the future onto this hurried instant. Ideas appear here on a rapid carousel, competing for shrinking space as political one-liners, catchy melodies, and otherworldly textures chase one another into the center of the gravitationally unstoppable singularity. If this record stands as a preemptive funeral for the casualties of the digital war at the end of history, we’ve at least given ourselves a chance to celebrate that bleak reality in a gloriously enigmatic, unapologetically human way.