Staff Picks: The Comet Is Coming - Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
For fans of: 21st Century Jazz Frontiers
What they're saying: The Quietus reviewer Brian Coney says of the latest LP from The Comet Is Coming “If there’s a more emphatic album released this side of 2023, we’ll be very lucky indeed.” Ella Kemp at NME says Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam “at once goes faster and harder than before, while leaving space for listeners and live audiences to draw their own conclusions too.” adding “This is the sound of a band at their most confident, capable of still pushing the boundaries they seemingly reimagined years ago without overwhelming.” Jeff Terich at Treble Zine hears the combo channeling their darker side in his glowing review: “The future they project, or reflect, here may not be as wondrous so much as intimidating and paranoid, but the confidence and power they project makes it feel a little less daunting.”
What we say: This UK trio has made some of the most exciting and adventurous jazz-adjacent sounds of the past decade and on Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam they switch things up enough to keep us totally engaged and on board!