Sex Mob
Dime Grind Palace
(Ropeadope)
Sex Mob can be a hard band to wrap your head around. Essentially a jazz combo that pounces over the ideology of Miles’s Bitches Brew and Hancock’s Headhunters, Sex Mob isn’t that easily categorized; they twist and turn free jazz and avant-garde eclipses like a deviant cousin of The Shuffle Demons. Dime Grind Palace can at times feel genius, only to get lost in sprawling abstraction. Sex Mob could be one of the most original groups in jazz, but lack the cohesion to make a solid masterpiece.
—Trevor MacLaren