TALIBAM!BOOGIE IN THE BREEZE BLOCKS
(ESP-Disk)
www.myspace.com/talibam
Talibam! are trying to be a post-modern band. They take various genres and influences, put them through a blender, and spit out this album. Spoken word moments appear a few times on the record. "Entertaining the After Beast" starts with a growl that could easily come off a metal record. With complex drum beats and fills, doodling keyboards, and bold vocals, Talibam!'s first song, "Predetermined to the Master Plan," brings jazz to mind. A few of the other songs are more snappy, punchy, punky, and to the point--showing Talibam!'s rock influence. The noisy avant garde elements mix together with more structured parts seamlessly.
Despite all this playing around with genres and sounds, the album still ends up having a unified sound. It may be the curse of post-modernism (that everything has been done before, and they can't make anything "new" and "different"), or it may be that Talibam! just really have a handle on what they're doing. Heck, it could be both.
This is free jazz gone wrong...and that's a good thing.
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