SticklerPhonics, l-r: Danny Lubin-Laden, Raffi Garabedian, Scott Amendola. Photo: Larry Gonzalez.

The Saturday morning listen returns - best time of the week and an album that has feelgood writ large. Such bass drum thumping groove heavy ambrosia for your aural feasting upon isn't anything like the emperor's new clothes as these geezers certainly can play hardball and aren't posing as avant-gardists. Scott Amendola - he of the ace Nels Cline Singers particularly excellent on 2014 release Macroscope - rolls in the deep as only someone with chops to burn and the flair to go with it can do. Dig Paul Motian dear reader as you model your recently purchased brand new anorak in front of the mirror ahead of lounging around down the jazz club post-puddle later? Amendola does.

Not that such showerstorms of ticking beat and curveball metrical flourishes rain down on every track. But c'me're listen hard and you can discern Motian's pulsar heartbeat in the more open sections. Mucho trombone pleasurably on the title track 'Technicolor Ghost Parade' fattens the whole thing out as it teeters on the brink of becoming a New Orleans street parade detour ahead meander. While only drums, Roswell Rudd-esque trombone from Danny Lubin-Laden and sax, tis tenorist and great team player Raffi Garabedian (who studied with Dayna Stephens when he was younger), to hand, Amendola proves an expert in punctuation particularly adept at measuring out the generous fills that the American feeds in as the heat intensifies. There's plenty to listen to however skeletal the set-up. And the glitchy, mischievous electronics that Amendola has ingeniously rustled up add welcome spice.

Tunes are mostly Amendola's - loose and pleasingly lumbering they prove. Beautifully recorded in a Berkeley California studio in 2022 the sonics poke your ears out which is what we want. And big up in the undersung mastering department for Tom Dimuzio given how immediate the sonics greet you at the door and take you to the table. Mausoleum like this album is not. Final word - 'Skip to a Stop' we playlisted today and it works a treat in context so go on have a gander as you hurtle up to speed with the rush and rumble of these non-pedantic SticklerPhonics. But they take all the time in the world however paradoxically - and that, there's a pressing thought - could even tip into being properly ironic. Fancy that.