Protect Your Light, their fourth studio album (and first with Impulse!), retains some of their characteristic brain-melting free-jazz and strong words but intersperses it with more accessible and forgiving moments.
The opening pair of tracks present this newer, softer recorded face. Free Love brings an overbearing and overwordy voice chanting from above through dramatic drums and epic horns, before switching to a bouncing bass line and rolling power drums, the horn refrain and vocals sashaying in and out, the reverb on big.
Of course, Protect Your Light also showcases some of Irreversible Entanglements' better-known fire. Our Land runs three minutes of anguished
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