This debut from Adult Jazz shows a lightness of touch that’s few and far between on first albums. The songs seem to start at a small point in an undefined centre before pulsing outwards in all directions, changing form and structure as they go, it’s almost impossible to describe what this music sounds like, or how it might make you feel.
You get the feeling that the next record might be entirely different given how unpredictable this one is, but for now, here, this is an album without boundaries .
“It feels like “Gist” came out of nowhere, fully formed. Full of wonder and joy – it’s both texturally ravishing and textually fascinating: songs, in other words, that tackle big subjects – the mediation of (homo)sexuality by church and society; what it means to be a man – with a transporting grace and music whose unexpected richness, space and invention creates a profound resonance.”
The Fat Angel Sings 