III (BadBadNotGood album)
III is the third studio album from Canadian jazz instrumental hip hop band BadBadNotGood. It was released on May 6, 2014. It is the group's first album of completely original material.
Reception
Upon its release, III received positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 72 based on 8 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable".In the review for AllMusic, James Pearce claimed that "III captures the raw energy, togetherness, and musicianship of a live concert, at points drifting off at a tangent and then rejoining to climactic chord structures and beautiful jazz melodies.
The album was a longlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize.
Track listing
All songs are produced by BADBADNOTGOOD and Frank Dukes.Personnel
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.BADBADNOTGOOD
- Matthew Tavares – piano, keyboards, synthesizer, electric guitar; composer and producer
- Chester Hansen – bass guitar, upright bass, electric guitar, synthesizer, sampler; composer and producer
- Alexander Sowinski – drums, percussion, synthesizer, sampler; composer and producer, photographer
- Leland Whitty – tenor & baritone saxophone, bass clarinet; violin & viola ; composer
- Tommy Paxton-Beesley – cello & violin; electric guitar ; string arranger
- Tom Moffat – trumpet
- Frank Dukes – producer, assistant engineer
- Stephen Koszler – mixing, engineer
- Matt MacNeil – assistant engineer
- João Carvalho – mastering