JOHN ZORN – Naked City

Easily one of the weirdest albums ever. It’s noisy and insane yet catchy, and will appeal to those who wouldn’t usually listen to jazz.It’s hardly a dark album either as the cover implies. Even when it’s at it’s noisiest it still keeps it’s humour. In fact, it’s hard to tell exactly how seriously Zorn is taking this, as even though the songs are obviously very well written and memorable they’re also completely bizarre. Sometimes they change direction in unexpected frenzies of noise, switching genre completely. There are punk sections, metal sections, classical, even country and reggae sections; ; though don’t expect much of them, these genres enter and leave again before you even notice they’re there.