Badminton

Imagine a jazz quartet being fed through a woodchipper that has been programmed by a grandmaster chess player. Badminton is a brief but exhausting masterclass in rhythmic complexity, where Aaron Funk takes the funky descriptor literally and then subjects it to extreme digital torture.

The title track is built on a foundation of slap bass and brassy stabs that feel like they belong in a 70s cop show, only to be sliced into millisecond-long fragments and reassembled into a 7/8 time signature at breakneck speed.

It is music that demands your full attention, vibrating with a nervous, caffeinated energy that refuses to sit still.