A CLOSER LISTEN: ACL 2020 ~ Best Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz
A CLOSER LISTEN: ACL 2020 ~ Best Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz
BY JEREMY BYE
“John Niekrasz and Luke Wyland first met in 2007, so it has taken this Portland duo a while to make a record together. As the result is the supremely inventive Methods Body, it’s been worth the wait, although we kind of wish they had four or five other records ripe for discovery (separately, they have sizeable discographies – this may explain the delay in working together). Propelled by Niekrasz’s polyrhythms, Wyland explores a multitude of melodies and sounds, resisting the urge to go too abstract across two side-long suites. It could sit alongside a few 70s electric jazz albums without any problem, but equally, it sounds unbelievably new as if we’re sitting in on the moment of creation.”