It’s not every day you come across a band touted as “bridg[ing] the gap between cerebral jazz-rock, raucous post-punk shredding, and tightly composed minimalism in the school of Steve Reich/ Terry Riley/ Philip Glass.”
But listen to Talking, the debut album by Baltimore-based experimentalists Crying Laughing, and you’ll be hard-pressed to conjure a more apt description of the quintet’s adventurous sound. The band released the record Friday on Hausu Mountain, which is rapidly becoming one of our favorite record labels.
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