Is it really a good idea calling your opening track 'Monotonous'? Spoiler alert while I skipped that track within seconds and the same happened the next time I tried, track 2, called '27', is much better. A trio with a hole in the middle, lacking a harmony instrument such as a piano or guitar, it's a drummer's record, leader Arthur Hnatek to the fore here with double bassist Fabien Iannone and tenorist Francesco Geminiani. Recorded in a Swiss studio last year Hnatek's method is quite experimental (you'll hear his rhythm experimentation on the highly syncopated 'Brew') and this side of the record and his penchant for electronics are its main calling card. But method does not mean content is on the same level. The ensemble play skirting on avant rock and soundscapery stylings is often not without its considerable longueurs; the saxophonic meanderings are very hard to avoid! Iannone provides a lot of relief and some of the album's best moments occur on 'MIDI Sans Frontières'. I can't recommend Static at all. It is just not compelling enough. SG.

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