The Fat Angel Sings

From the sound of this first single, Leeds based band  Adult Jazz doesn’t have much to do with jazz, nor with the kind of tongue-in-cheek, smooth-as-hell lounge music homage you might expect from a band with the word “adult” in its name. Mostly, it’s bluesy, a cappella-style crooning, accented with some skeletal drums and baritone/falsetto vocal harmonies. There’s a couple other elements that make their way in—electric guitar, some jagged break beats—but more than cohere into a full band sound, “Springful” feels committed to its own sparseness, experimentally building each counter intuitively catchy groove from as few sonic elements as possible. It’s got a strange beauty that lives up to the weird-as-fuck band moniker, and it’s one of three tracks on Adult Jazz’ upcoming “Am Gone”/”Springful” 12″ single which they’re self-releasing on their own label, Spare Thought Records,