Jackie-O Motherfucker - Fig. 5

In its superb 2000 LP, Fig. 5, Jackie-o Motherfucker was inspired by drones, ethnic and folk musics, free jazz, and the hippie spirit of The Grateful Dead, but Fig. 5 melds these genres so effortlessly and convincingly that the results barely resemble any of their antecedents. Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica is probably the most famous precedent for this sort of free-thinking fusion of jazz and folk music, but Fig. 5 is far less forceful than its late-'60s forebear. Read More