Floored By Four

Add Date: October 26 

Artist: Floored By Four 

Album: Floored By Four 

Label: Chimera Music 

Genre: Defies classification 

Comments: Supergroup, anyone? This newly-minted quartet features Mike Watt of The Minutemen, Nels Cline of Wilco, Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto and Dougie Bowne of The Lounge Lizards. This self-titled release is coming out on Chimera Music, a label that Yuka co-founded with Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl. (The latter two comprise the duo The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, whose Acoustic Sessions just added to our playlist.)

From the onesheet: "The music defies categorization and, in fact, the musicians defy categorization... FxF shifts effortlessly and unexpectedly among styles: dark and mysterious jazz, angst-ridden grunge rock, exotic otherworldly sounds, strutting Memphis soul... Echoes of Sun Ra, Booker T, Bitches Brew, Can, Funkadelic, Sonic Youth, Beefheart, Xenakis..."

With three of the album's four songs clocking in at over nine minutes--including the 19-minute closer--this may not be what you'd call "radio-friendly," but it's certainly very interesting to hear four supremely talented musicians going to town.