(Jazzgroove)

The Dirty Three of jazz

The Alcohotlicks are being lauded as ascendant, genre-transcendent renaissance renegades with no eye for limitations and no reverence for the stringent conventions that keep musicians and their creations in check [You what? – JS]. Are they jazz? Are they rock? Are they grunge? These seem to be penetrating questions for fan and reviewer alike. The answer is yes! The Alcohotlicks have taken the paradigms and commandments of traditional jazz and turned them inwards to produce frenetic and relentless contemporary jazz that traverses the borders of everything from the lullaby to psychedelic country funk. Accept that there is no particular category to latch onto here. In place of classification is an innate and instinctual understanding of sound and how all the broken edges can fit together. The Alcohotlicks honour music in the same way the Dirty Three do: by fusing it all seamlessly together into a Frankensteinian explosion of righteous awesome.

PAULIE STONE

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