Search - Bad Plus :: For All I Care

A banquet of ideas and territories

Ned Isis | New York, New York | 01/29/2010

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I think Wendy Lewis is a very expressive and soulful singer, and well matched with the Bad Plus.

She has a great range of idioms that she travels, a dry delivery, capable of detached and very

controlled conversational singing, and moments of abandoned, revealing expression. The program

on the CD is very varied, Stravinsky, Pink Floyd, Babbit, Flaming Lips....The band sounds great on

this Tchad Blake recording. His aesthetic works well at integrating the singer into the Bad Plus mix.

It's a different kind of mix. A little rock and roll gauze. And their version of "Comfortably Numb"

to my ears is preferable to Pink Floyd's, which I love. And Lewis' reading of Cobain's "Lithium" seems

right on target to me. Complex. Emotional. Disturbing. Musical. Next time around I would like to hear

her improvise melodically, with no words. But maybe that's not one of her things. Besides that, full speed

ahead. These are the vistas."

AMAZING

Riff Right | santa barbara,CA | 04/16/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Move over Steely Dan - AJA..here comes the Bad Plus. This is the new LP you want to bring out when people need to hear how awesome your stereo system is or how awesome records can sound. And Lo and behold..the music is masterful. How this LP is so far off the radar screen is beyond me..it should be on the top of every Stereophile,Rolling Stone,Absolute Sound..etc,etc, listening list.A fellow music lover turned me on to it and I was and still am totally blown away with this album.. I'm trying to spread the word! KB"