World Service Project: For King & Country album review - Like jazz, only louder

For King & Country
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Artist: World Service Project
Genre: Jazz
Label: Rare Noise

This London five-piece, led by keyboardist/composer Dave Morecroft, are a stiff blast of face-melting noise.

The sound is Mingus and late-Coltrane mixed with hardcore punk, math metal and Zappa-esque mayhem into a raucous racket that will have every hipster reaching for the dictionary.

Punk jazz? Skronk jazz? Avant-funk-jazz? Whatever it’s called, it sounds like the brass band at some English village fete had suddenly gone off-script and started screaming at the vicar.

But behind the Python-esque theatricality, the ironic band costumes and the turn-it-up attitude is a group of young men with serious musical intent.

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The blasting horn parts, shredding keyboard solos, and shuddering funk grooves, are all part of the plan. Like jazz, only louder.

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Cormac Larkin

Cormac Larkin

Cormac Larkin, a contributor to The Irish Times, is a musician, writer and director