This is some nasty, nasty jazz . Featuring saxophonist Matt Nelson ( Battle Trance ), bassist Tim Dahl (Child Abuse), and drummer Nick Podgurski (New Firmament, Feast Of The Epiphany), GRID's debut album bubbles up from the East River like a toxic monster amalgamated from New York's improvised and extreme music scenes. The trio's common denominator is '70s free jazz — but that genre's intensity at a grueling pace, through manipulated electronics. The result calls to mind the late-period albums by Painkiller and Khanate (whenever those metallic skronkers spaced out).
GRID's own brand of sludge, however, is remarkably steady for a style normally hellbent on insanity. On album closer "(+/-)," the saxophone and bass are, at times, indiscernible in their feedback rumbles and groans, as the drums dot and dash the noise like a building demolition replayed in slow motion.
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