{"id":47239,"date":"2016-06-30T12:05:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T17:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=47239"},"modified":"2016-07-11T09:48:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T14:48:39","slug":"badbadnotgood-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2016\/06\/30\/badbadnotgood-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"BADBADNOTGOOD: IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian pioneers known as BADBADNOTGOOD continue their brand <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47240 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BBNG-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Badbadnotgood IV\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>of\u00a0hip-hop- and electronica-influenced jazz\u00a0with their fourth solo studio album (fifth if you count last year&#8217;s collaboration with Ghostface Killah, <em>Sour<\/em> <em>Soul<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>With the recent, official induction of the brass master, Leland Whitty,\u00a0<em>IV\u00a0<\/em>strikes back with full saxophone\u00a0excellence especially present in the track &#8220;Confessions Pt. II,&#8221; a continuation of a one of the hits off of their 2014 release,\u00a0<em>III.<\/em> This BBNG installment invites more electronic elements than previous releases but maintains the moody tone set in <em>III<\/em>\u00a0(see track 5, &#8220;Lavender feat. Kaytranda&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>While some tracks off this album feel less innovative\u00a0than what die hard BBNG fans like myself have come to expect, and more like dungeon crawling background music from &#8220;Legend of Zelda,&#8221; the hits from this collection carry this release into the same vein of excellence the group has come to call their home. With a wealth of features including\u00a0Haitian born producer Kaytranada, rising rap heavyweight Mick Jenkins, and Future Islands&#8217;s own Sam Herring,\u00a0<em>IV<\/em>\u00a0is not something to sleep on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended If You Like: Kaytranada, Mick Jenkins, Flying Lotus, Tyler the Creator,\u00a0John Coltrane<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Tracks: 2 (Speaking Gently), \u00a03 (Time Moves Slow feat. Sam Herring), \u00a04 (Confessions Pt. II Feat. Colin Stetson), 5 (Lavender feat. Kaytranada), 10 (In Your Eyes feat. Charlotte Day Wilson)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Not Play: 8 (Hyssop of Love feat. Mick Jenkins)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by Cody Boston\u00a0on 06\/30\/16<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian pioneers known as BADBADNOTGOOD continue their brand of\u00a0hip-hop- and electronica-influenced jazz\u00a0with their fourth solo studio album (fifth if you count last year&#8217;s collaboration with Ghostface Killah, Sour Soul). With the recent, official induction of the brass master, Leland Whitty,\u00a0IV\u00a0strikes back with full saxophone\u00a0excellence especially present in the track &#8220;Confessions Pt. II,&#8221; a continuation of a one of the hits off of their 2014 release,\u00a0III. This BBNG installment invites more electronic elements than previous releases but maintains the moody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5490,"featured_media":47243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,183,4,3235,3230],"tags":[5089,5090,2650,407,4787,641,5004,5091],"class_list":["post-47239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hopelectronic-rotation","category-jazz-rotation","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","tag-badbadnotgood","tag-bbng","tag-cody-boston","tag-hip-hop","tag-iv","tag-jazz","tag-kaytranada","tag-sam-herring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/badbadnotgood_iv_01-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}