Album Review: BadBadNotGood- Talk Memory

Talk Memory is the fifth studio full-length album by Canadian jazz group BadBadNotGood. It was released on October 8, 2021, After a 5-year gap between albums, Canadian jazz instrumental group BadBadNotGood returns with a big slice of jazz fusion on their latest Talk Memory. The boys have always shown great mastery as a jazz fusion quartet, but this time they don’t focus too much on hip hop leaning beats and grooves of their previous albums, but rather go with something wilder that looks back into the past for inspiration. There are still many strong melodies found here that highlight the best tracks, being a big highlight for the phenomenal string arrangements of Arthur Verocai found on a large majority of the other tracks. This is the first release without founding member Matthew Tavares who departed in 2019 and It almost seems like the rest of the guys dug down and showed they could continue working without him, This record has got to be their most underrated piece of art to date in terms of instrumentation. It feels completely distinctive to their discography with jazz orchestration that booms with sentiment and complexity. I rate this album 10/10.