Mockroot, released in February 2015, had big shoes to fill. If anyone else made it, it would be instantly hailed as a masterpiece.The individual tracks are, for the most part—excluding perhaps the minimalist “Kars 2 (Wounds of the Centuries)”—great compositions. After the creative burst of “Song for Melan and Rafik,” however, no tracks necessarily stand out until the end. “The Grid” and “Out of The Grid,” which close the album are, in my view, the strongest. Here we hear a kind of dissonant, post-modern, Armenian-infused post-bop, followed by angular djent-like jazz.
― j., Wednesday, 9 January 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link