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Brownie needs to join the bort, he would fit in just fine here
He would love it here
Might actually be. Looks like 50 minutes of improv just in set 1. Impressive. Can’t wait to not listen back
Edit: looks like 90 minutes of improv total which I think you’d be hard pressed to find a show with more improv. Maybe 12/30/19?
Just shy of Squeaky Feet’s 9/17 show with 94 minutes of improv. Better luck next time Joel
That’s insane
Can you and my “wife” get back here with my breakfast already
Except the show probably won’t ever make it to nugs. And if it does, it will sound like shit.
Time to listen to this show.
Robot was nice. Reminds me a bit of the big Penns Peak one but with a dance section instead of the metal. This is what a solid jam sounds like when they just let it develop. Really liked Joel’s playing at the beginning.
Reso is amazing. Love a good middle jam and this spacey second jam is right up my alley. Could’ve done without the pipeline, but whatever.
Junk and Phil’s both have nice medium sized jams, but I think Linear was the highlight of set 2. Really cool jam, with some nice playing by Jake (I think on slide at the end.) A+ use of that sample in remind me too.
Overall really good show. You can really tell Bayliss is into it (I guess that’s really still all you need for them to actually improvise) and his vocals sound great. Particularly noticeable in HBB
This show doesn’t suck. Def better than '19, but they have crushed both Resonance shows they’ve played. Is this just where UM decides to throw down now?
Robot World is nasty. Beautiful dance party with a decent peak to end.
Revenge of the Nerds samples in Mulches are dope. Really glad they fleshed it out with some proggy stuff instead of the standard predictable crutch dub jam.
Reso is super weird. @cshore jam. Almost falls apart several times. Somehow makes it to the finish line. This is the kind of playing that’s good for UM, though. Took some chances and it sort of landed. Not a GOAT jam by any means, but at least they’re having fun. If they were this loose all the time, they might be almost as good as the biscuits. Imagine if UM took the half court shot and buried it…
I skipped over Glory and MiR tbh. But NN is fun. Solid syncopated dance jam.
The second set is fucking huge. Improv everywhere and it’s all good.
PhilsJunk segment is straight gas. More samples in Junk. Beautiful playing throughout and awesome segues. This is as UM as it gets.
Agree with opsloppoppalips here. Linear is hands down JOTN. Type of ham that started out looking for a big peak…mellows out into some beautiful Joel work. Jake fucking slays this shit. That guy can be really good sometimes. Linear might be the new GOAT UM jam vehicle.
MO felt like they were all battling over territory for a while but settles into a nice groove around 6 min. Falls into some weird, slinky, disjointed jazzy shit a couple minutes later.
Remind Me is a throwaway but love the use of the Billy Madison sample right before the metal section.
I’m definitely turnt, but this felt good. Show kept my attention pretty much the whole time.
4:30am reviews always the best. Def sounds promising. Loving the samples. Always a good time at Marvin’s.
Wow samples again? Lots of improv? Someone in the band must be reading the bort and realizing the band needed to turn it around.
my thoughts exactly, didn’t Joel say this felt like the best show of the year?
Does that mean he’s aware of vomiting into our ears 80% of the time this year?
And of course they’re back on schedule with the dud they dropped in Indy.
I will agree that the setlist sucked, but the jams were all at least decent.
Remember when a common discussion point earlier this summer was that the problem with the shows wasn’t that they were lacking improv, it was just that none of it was really connecting? This show is a positive step in the right direction, but it still suffers from a bit of that issue to my ears.
The two jams that really stand out on this show to me are Robot and Linear. Robot is very long - a true 14 minute jam but it justifies its length IMO. They find a dancey groove, they stick to it, they generate themes based on that groove and actually explore patiently without any jarring changeups - nice stuff. After about 6-7 minutes of that it’s time to build towards an uplifting peak, but again instead of forcing one, they do so organically. Cool stuff. It’s so much more satisfying to me to see Joel/Jake/Bayliss gradually swell like they do at the end of this rather than have Jake force a riff in there.
Linear takes a couple minutes to find its stride, but once it does it’s Jake/Joel post-rock perfection with a beautiful build. This one is easily among my favorite post-pandemic jams.
The rest is…cool, and with two jams that strong it doesn’t have to be much more than that. I appreciate the risks they were willing to take this show, including the ones that didn’t work as much to me (hello 3-minute Reso Pipeline/noisy outro). Friday’s show has a couple high points as well. Solid weekend.
They should also receive some extra credit for playing this way at a, wait for it… festival!! For how long now has the complaint been that they don’t take enough risks at festivals aka “playing it safe”. This was a fest set that actually delivers; quality improv, samples, plus I kinda like the setlist it lends itself to flow nicely. A solid A- effort & execution, t’is a good show
This robot world is some prime jake. As tasteful as I’ve heard him play in a jam in a while
Nice review. I thought that Reso was going somewhere, at least into Pipeline, which Jake really seemed to want to do but the rest of the band shot him down. I enjoy some noisy space jazz odyssey, but prefer it to lead up to something rather than just fizzle, which forced Jake just to start Glory. The lack of ->'s is probably my number one gripe with the band. I’m a sucker for nicely executed transitions.