Structured Chaos
Nov 26, 2021
4 minutes
Words: David West
Images:
Louise Haywood-Schiefer
“Certainly for me, the very best type of music often comes from that tension between wanting to rein something in and be incredibly structured but [have] an improvisational element. I think there’s a real great sweet spot that you can hit somewhere in the middle there, getting the best of both worlds,” says Diagonal’s saxophonist Nicholas Whittaker. The British band have just released their fourth album, simply titled 4, which offers a mind-expanding mix of Canterbury-style prog, krautrock, space rock and jazz.
is the group’s second release of 2021 and follows their ‘official bootleg’, . The
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