Cinema Cinema
CCXMDII
(Nefarious Industries)
4/5
On their sixth full-length release, Brooklyn’s wild art-jazz punks Cinema Cinema have delved even deeper into a vast ocean of sonic experimentation and ambient washes of modulation and echo, surfacing triumphantly with razor-sharp tight grooves.
Cousins Ev Gold (vocals/guitar) and Paul Claro (drums) are once again joined by the masterful reeds of Matt Darriau (also of The Klezmatics). Across seven tracks the trio swirl and splutter through an unsteady freeform cacophony of chaos before resting on unanticipated moments of sanguine resolve.
Track four, “Bratislava,” presents nine minutes and nine seconds of the best Cinema Cinema have to offer, with all the chaos and calm intensifying into a crescendo of ballsy math-rock mayhem.
CCXMDII is the kind of album that’s best enjoyed as one whole, coherent piece of music and wouldn’t sound out of place as the cinematic score to an art-house fever dream.