Artist: Acoustic Ladyland

Date of Release: 01/01/2004

Catalogue no: 113

Label: babel

Price: £12

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Track Listing

Pete Wareham (saxes), Tom Cawley (piano), Tom Herbert (bass) and Seb Rochford (drums).

Reviews

06/05/2005 The Guardian - CD of the week

"The second album by London four-piece Acoustic Ladyland ia an all-out assault on the senses. It breaks with most ideas of what a jazz record sounds like, with smack-in-your-face post-punk production....An album that brings out the indie rock fan's inner aesthete, and the jazz fan's inner hooligan....Last Chance Disco is headbangingly good".

03/01/2005 The Guardian

"The band hammered through raunchy tenor licks over rumbling drum'n'bass sounds, trancelike dance-floor hooks blurring into free-sax howls, power-chord rock, briefly dreamy episodes for soft horn-playing, jingly keys and Rochford's lazy slow-funk pulse, and a Coltranesque lament. On this evidence Acoustic Ladyland will be one of the big stories of 2005".

01/01/2005 Time Out

"They look more like Interpol than a jazz quartet, play a high energy punk jazz hybrid that's as funky as hell and are tipped to explode this year".

01/01/2005 The Times

"Starting with the pell-mell explosion of Iggy, the four-man assault unit blasts through a selection of original instrumentals that evoke a primal thrill… Melodically adept, rhythmically inspired and philosophically unhinged, it's a performance of mind blowing magnificence"