Frownland

There's a few collab threads but they all focus on favourites/best.


Colin Stetson and Mats Gustafsson - Stones

Take two of the best modern saxophonists in the game and it should be mindblowing, right? Nope. This album is essentially two solo pieces simply laid on top of each other. I say that as a person who loves messy free improvisation. There's not enough musical dialogue to sustain more than five minutes of this lazy album. It might have just been their first time jamming together for a live performance, but the end result is incredibly disappointing.

Another album that lays the artists' sounds over each other in just the laziest, least-inspired way possible is Sun Kil-Moon and Jesu's first collab.

The ideal collab for me is when it comes out to something totally different from the artists' original work without sacrificing or diluting their sound. Instead of the above artists following the formula of a + b = c, they went with a + b = b + a and it's so ****ing boring.

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