your greedbagpress release - Need New Body
You’d be hard pressed to find a band more unnerving than Need New Body. The Philadelphia group, risen from the ruins of N.Jersey psych/art-rock pranksters Bent Leg Fatima, is about as unpredictable as they come. The five members swirl organ, drums, sax, bass and — in the words of vocalist/dancer/multi-instrumentalist Jeff Bradbury —"pots and pans, banjos, good spirits, evil spirits," into a wicked hurdy gurdy. One gets the feeling that the band’s music — in a way continuing Bent Leg’s deconstruction of the Psychadelphia sound into fractious shards of out-jazz, jive poetry and derelict cabaret — is as much for the band’s amusement as that of their listeners. Where other experimental/art-rock outfits sometimes drown in the pretension of their own creations, Need New Body is dead set on avoiding the artistic quicksand that engulfs some of their peers. "I think," sums up drummer Chris Powell, "that we’re pretty much doing it just because it’s fun."
"This 22 track CD is a vitally weird and engaging work. Tiny babies of Beefheart, Sun Ra and Sun City Girls, squealing in delight and doing mad Busby Berkeley choreography on a layer cake the size of a skyscraper” [George Parsons, Dream Magazine]
“Saxophone blasts, buoyant bass lines, and minimal organ noise preach a Zappa-Faust-Ayler-Sun Ra-like gospel of avant rock that's both fun and ferocious” [A D Amorosi, Philadelphia Enquirer]
“Need New Body’s hour-long debut is sublime tumbledown glitch jazz. Need New Body fronts like Tom Waits spoiling for a scrap and lurches like Captain Beefheart off his head, but at the heart is the belief that you can dance to this music. And you can dance to it, especially when the angles are less obtuse and a groove grows from the flowing experimentalism” [Jimmy Possession, Sleazenation]
release:Need New Body
label: Pickled Egg Records