NEW YORK TIMES: The Playlist: Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber Join Forces, and 11 More New Songs
NEW YORK TIMES: The Playlist: Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber Join Forces, and 11 More New Songs
BY GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO
“The latest project from Davis, an emerging alto saxophonist, is Alula, her most formally innovative group yet. It’s a trio, with two established experimentalists laying the foundation under her sax: Matt Mitchell on synthesizers and Gregory Saunier (best known as a member of Deerhoof) on drums. Each of the 11 tunes on her new album has its own identity, but they’re all unified by a loose, scrappy energy and a dedication to serious plotting. “Landing” stands out, for its papery synth sound, long sax tones and percussion that sounds like a marching-band drummer rehearsing alone in an empty auditorium. It’s just the right amount of unsettling — like what you’d expect to hear in the background after a confounding, climactic scene in a great Lynch film.”