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Natural Selection by Starebaby, Dan Weiss (CD, 2020)

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelPi Recordings, Pirc

UPC0808713008623

eBay Product ID (ePID)13046087206

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2020

GenreJazz

ArtistStarebaby, Dan Weiss

Release TitleNatural Selection

Dimensions

Item Height0.27 in

Item Weight0.13 lb

Item Length5.37 in

Item Width5.02 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Number of Tracks8

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Episode 18 1.2 Dawn 1.3 The Long Diagonal 1.4 A Taste of a Memory 1.5 Today Is Wednesday Tomorrow? 1.6 Bridge of Trust 1.7 Accina 1.8 Head Wreck

NotesNatural Selection is the highly-anticipated follow-up to drummer/composer Dan Weiss's 2018 release Starebaby, an unconventional compounding of doom metal, electronic music, and improvisation into a dark and mystic brew. That album was named to many best-of 2018 lists, including Rolling Stone, which described it as "an album that creates it's own sonic cinematic reality," while NPR called it "Astonishing... A true convergence of heavy trudge and spontaneous combustion." As with Starebaby, the new album is deeply inspired by the 2017 return of David Lynch's television show Twin Peaks, whose dreamlike, foreboding feel pervades much of this music. The entire group - comprised of a dream-team of musicians who share a love for heavy metal and whose playing is unbound by genre - returns from the first album: Ben Monder (who plays on David Bowie's Blackstar) on guitar, Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Melvins, Secret Chiefs 3) on bass, and the twin-keyboard/piano/electronics attack of the exceptionally creative Matt Mitchell and Craig Taborn. The recording of Natural Selection came fast at the end of a run of performances for the band, which helped further cement the group's unique sound. It's staggering to contemplate the wide-ranging ability of these musicians: from bone-crunching power to pensive reflection; exacting hits to improvised texture; faith to the compositions and manic improvisation, all played with imagination and conviction.