DOMi & JD BECK – NOT TiGHT

Decca (UMO) / Jazz / Blue Note

£12.56

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: 4590836
Barcode: 0602445908363
Release Date: 29 Jul 2022
Genre: Jazz

NOT TiGHT is the long-awaited debut album from virtuosic Gen Z duo, DOMi & JD BECK, released on Anderson .Paak’s new label APESHIT in partnership with the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records. It features the likes of Thundercat, whose deadpan funk is their closest antecedent, Herbie Hancock, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Mac DeMarco, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and .Paak himself. Their music finds both humor and greatness in harmonic complexity and rhythmic shiftiness, abruptly adopting and ditching tempos, toying with time signatures, and sneaking extra beats into bridges. They offer winking breaks and gleeful pivots, but the album is more composed than anything they’ve done before, toying with pop structures and pretty restraint. That befits their origin story. The duo first played together in a room full of blaring demos at a trade show, but they bonded over gauche keyboard FX and mom jokes. Over the next year and a half, they wrote and recorded much of the album at JD’s house in Dallas on drums and a 49-key MIDI board with just a few mics. Along the way, DOMi & JD BECK have sat in with Herbie Hancock and backed Thundercat, Ariana Grande, Eric André, and more; they also co-wrote “Skate” on .Paak’s GRAMMY-winning album with Bruno Mars as Silk Sonic.

TRACKLIST:
LOUANA’S Intro
WHATUP
SMiLE
BOWLiNG
NOT TiGHT
TWO SHRiMPS
U DON’T HAVE TO ROB
MOON
DUKE
TAKE A CHANCE
SPACE MOUNTAIN
PiLOT
WHOA
SNiFF
THANK U