BBNG2
| BBNG2 | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | April 3, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 2012 | |||
| Studio | Revolution Recording (Toronto) | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 60:55 | |||
| Label | Self-released | |||
| BADBADNOTGOOD chronology | ||||
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| Singles from BBNG2 | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Indie Current | (very positive)[1] |
| Prefix Mag |    [2] |
| Sputnikmusic |   [3] |
BBNG2 is the second studio album from Canadian music group BADBADNOTGOOD. It was made available on April 3, 2012, via the band's website as a free download in various formats.[4][5] The album is a mixture of original compositions and covers of Earl Sweatshirt (track 1), Feist (track 4), Tyler, The Creator and Gucci Mane (track 5), James Blake (tracks 4 and 9), Kanye West (track 10), and My Bloody Valentine (track 11). It received generally very positive reviews.
Production and release
[edit]Following their prolific first year as a band, which saw the release of the viral Odd Future Sessions, an EP, two live albums, and their debut album BBNG, the group self-released their sophomore album on April 3, 2012.[6] The group made the album available for free download online.
The entire album was recorded in one ten hour recording session at Revolution Recordings in Toronto, with the group making a note that "no one above the age of 21 was involved in the making of this album."[6] The album included more original material than their first album as well as reworked versions of the previously released songs "Rotten Decay" and "Bastard/Lemonade." This album also contained two collaborative tracks, one featuring Luan Phung and the other with future band member Leland Whitty.
Reception
[edit]BBNG2 received more mainstream coverage than any of the band's previous releases, including features in The Guardian's New Band of the Week and NPR's Song of the Day.[7][8][9] The album received positive critical reviews, with Prefix Mag calling the album a "decisive turning point" and Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop celebrating the band's new sounds and strong improvisations and solos, saying that they were "doing fantastic things for jazz;"[10][11] he gave the album a 9/10 review, his second-highest rated album of the year.[12]
Some jazz critics took offense to the band's irreverence toward jazz tradition and accused them of being over-hyped relative to their experience and technical proficiency. Others went as far as to debate the band's right to play and call themselves jazz.[13] Some commentators in the jazz scene, however, like musician Brownman Ali and critic Anthony Dean-Harris, came to the band's defense, with the latter stating, "They have all the attributes of a real cutting edge jazz band who can once again make us all rethink what this genre is capable of doing, being, becoming, and encompassing."[14][15]
Track listing
[edit]Credits adapted from Bandcamp.[6]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Earl (feat. Leland Whitty)" (Earl Sweatshirt cover) | Thebe Kgositsile, Tyler Okonma | 3:38 |
| 2. | "Vices" | Matthew Tavares, Chester Hansen, Alexander Sowinski | 4:40 |
| 3. | "Rotten Decay" | Tavares, Hansen, Sowinski | 6:31 |
| 4. | "Limit to Your Love" (Feist cover) | Feist, Jason "Gonzales" Charles Beck | 4:30 |
| 5. | "Bastard/Lemonade" (Tyler, the Creator / Gucci Mane cover) | Okonma, Radric Davis, Shondrae Crawford | 7:04 |
| 6. | "CHSTR" | Tavares, Hansen, Sowinski | 5:25 |
| 7. | "UWM (feat. Leland Whitty)" | Tavares, Hansen, Sowinski | 6:02 |
| 8. | "DMZ" | Tavares, Hansen, Sowinski | 5:12 |
| 9. | "CMYK" (James Blake cover) | James Blake, Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, Stephen Garrett, Timothy Mosley | 5:16 |
| 10. | "Flashing Lights" (Kanye West cover) | Kanye West, Eric Hudson | 7:16 |
| 11. | "You Made Me Realise (feat. Luan Phung)" (My Bloody Valentine cover) | Kevin Shields | 5:21 |
| Total length: | 60:55 | ||
Personnel
[edit]- BADBADNOTGOOD
- Matthew Tavares - keyboards
- Chester Hansen - bass guitar, upright bass
- Alexander Sowinski - drums, sampler
Other music
- Leland Whitty - saxophone (tracks 1 & 7)
- Luan Phung - electric guitar (track 11)
- Technical
- Matthew Tavares - mixing, mastering
- Matt MacNeil - engineer, mixing, mastering
- Jack Clow - engineer
- Artwork
- Connor Olthuis - photography, art design
- Sam Zaret - art design
References
[edit]- ^ "Badbadnotgood - Bbng2". 3 April 2012.
- ^ "PreFixMag".
- ^ "- (Album review ) | Sputnikmusic".
- ^ Barton, Chris (April 17, 2012). "The Odd Future-endorsed sound of BadBadNotGood comes to the Mint". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Dart, Chris (April 24, 2012). "Sound Advice: BBNG2 by Badbadnotgood". Torontoist.
- ^ a b c "BBNG2, by BADBADNOTGOOD". BADBADNOTGOOD. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ "New band of the day – No 1,252: BADBADNOTGOOD". the Guardian. 2012-04-18. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ "BADBADNOTGOOD: A Moody Jazz-Hop Think Piece". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ "Who Is BadBadNotGood?". Complex. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ Mejia, Paula. "BBNG2 | Prefixmag.com". Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ Fantano, Anthony (April 5, 2012). BADBADNOTGOOD- BBNG2 ALBUM REVIEW (video). The Needle Drop.
- ^ "The Needle Drop's Best Albums of 2012". Album of The Year. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ Dean-Harris, Anthony (2012-04-05). "How Do We Solve a Problem Like BBNG?". Nextbop. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ^ Neil, Matthew Sean (2018). "BadBadNotGood and Jazz Blasphemy". Locating Jazz in 21st Century American Society (PDF). Riverside, CA: University of California Riverside. pp. 226–230. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-07-01. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
- ^ Dean-Harris, Anthony (2012-04-03). "For Your Consideration: BADBADNOTGOOD'S 'BBNG2'". Nextbop. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
