The Disco Biscuits - Senor Boombox

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Free Music Review: Good stuff, all around
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That being said, their latest offering is a testament to the ingenuity, creative potential and genuine musical diversity that the guys in the band seem to exude. The record is a study in juxtaposition: the first track, Hope, hovers somewhere between a melodic, soft-spoken ode and a crunchy pop tune (staying genuinely Bisco the whole time) and then gives way to Float Like a Butterfly, which is techno so genuine I can taste the X. Floodlights churns out an ominously heavy groove and then almost awkwardly (but not at all inappropriately) cuts into the bouncing and bubbly opening melody of Jigsaw Earth, a song whose midsection makes a bizarrely in-character foray into what could pass for circus music before finally returning to its original theme.

Though each song (excluding the ambient tracks) works well enough as its own piece of music, there is a certain vague but definitely noticeable cohesiveness to the record that makes listening to it all the richer an experience.

It's a departure, of sorts, from earlier Bisco, but at the same time it remains strangely familiar and completely enjoyable. Where earlier in their career they might conceivably have been dismissed by the skeptical as just another group trying to ride the coattails of the Phish-moe.-SCI jam phenom, at this stage of the game few should question the lasting originality, inventiveness and overall musical talent of these guys. Any so-called jam band that can present an organically produced electronica/techno-infused sound to diehard jam fans without alienating them is a group that is without a doubt a winner in my book, and this recording features the boys at the tops of their games on all counts.

Granted if you're not a fan of the music, you're not gonna like it, simple as that. But if you have any appreciation for innovation and originality in today's music scene, the Disco Biscuits are most surely a band to check out, and this album would make a fine cornerstone to any burgeoning DB library. (Then again, so would any of the other albums... But still. Stop reading and just buy the disc already.)

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