| Debut album by band co-led by James Allsopp, Tim Giles with Stian Westerhus, Philip Hochstrate, Ben Reynolds.
Nominated for BBC Jazz Award, Best Album 2007
"You know there's something major afoot when a debut album gets nominated for a prestigious BBC jazz award before it's even hit the shops. Ever since their appearance at last year's Cheltenham Jazz Festival, the name of post-free improv 'decomposers' has been on the lips of the jazz cognoscenti...this young Hackney quintet are currently setting the agenda for the future of British Jazz. Their clattering eponymous debut Fraud (Babel) doesn't disappoint..."
(Robert Shore, Metro)
"...It's what the phrase cutting edge was invented for, and a very impressive debut." (John Fordham - The Guardian) ****
"...London's Babel Label which has already furnished us with Acoustic Ladyland, Polar Bear and Led Bib now serves us up with Fraud...a raspy ear-shredding sax wails over glitchy electronic percussion, wobbly synth splurges and "baritone guitar". It's rather good" (John Lewis, Uncut magazine)*** |