Badbadnotgood

IV is the 2016 album by Canadian band BADBADNOTGOOD, who blend their love of jazz with independent pop and hip-hop flows. This was released by Innovative Leisure.

Badbadnotgood Toronto-based jazz ensemble BadBadNotGood make expansive music that straddles the line between '70s soul-jazz, alternative hip-hop, and experimental electronica. The musicians gained attention in the early 2010s playing jazz covers of tracks by the likes of Odd Future and MF Doom. BBNG (2011) and BBNG2 (2012), their first two records, further developed that approach with reinterpretations of songs by A Tribe Called Quest and Kanye West as well as My Bloody Valentine and Feist. III (2014), their last fully instrumental LP for a decade, gave them their commercial breakthrough; it crowned Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and became the first of many BBNG projects nominated for Canada's Polaris Music Prize. The collaborative IV (2016) brought in guests ranging from Future Islands frontman Samuel T. Herring to saxophonist Colin Stetson and marked the band's Canadian chart debut. Talk Memory (2021), their third straight number one on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, explored fusion, new age, and orchestral influences with string arrangements from Arthur Verocai.

Less than a year after her album Through and Through, Baby Rose returns with Slow Burn, a collection of songs that explode her sonic palette from progressive R&B into a rawer, richer and more sprawling lens of American music. Here, Rose asserts herself as not only a once-in-ten-lifetimes vocalist, but as a formidable songwriter connecting the dots where Muscle Shoals meets psych, psych meets jazz, jazz meets Americana, and the right players bring it all together. Produced by BADBADNOTGOOD, Rose and the band found an instant but seemingly endless well of inspiration; what started as an introduction became a day, became a song, became a night, became Slow Burn.

Badbadnotgood Toronto-based jazz ensemble BadBadNotGood make expansive music that straddles the line between '70s soul-jazz, alternative hip-hop, and experimental electronica. The musicians gained attention in the early 2010s playing jazz covers of tracks by the likes of Odd Future and MF Doom. BBNG (2011) and BBNG2 (2012), their first two records, further developed that approach with reinterpretations of songs by A Tribe Called Quest and Kanye West as well as My Bloody Valentine and Feist. III (2014), their last fully instrumental LP for a decade, gave them their commercial breakthrough; it crowned Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and became the first of many BBNG projects nominated for Canada's Polaris Music Prize. The collaborative IV (2016) brought in guests ranging from Future Islands frontman Samuel T. Herring to saxophonist Colin Stetson and marked the band's Canadian chart debut. Talk Memory (2021), their third straight number one on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, explored fusion, new age, and orchestral influences with string arrangements from Arthur Verocai.

Turnstile and BadBadNotGood have shared a surprise joint EP, New Heart Designs. The EP reimagines three songs from Turnstile’s 2021 album Glow On, “Mystery,” “Alien Love Call” ft. Blood Orange, and “Underwater Boi.”

BADBADNOTGOOD have shared a new EP called Mid Spiral: Growth. It’s the Canadian instrumental crew’s fourth release of the year following the one-off single “Take What’s Given”, "Mid Spiral: Chaos" and "Mid Spiral: Order" EPs. They also contributed to the Talking Heads tribute album that’s out on Friday.

BADBADNOTGOOD have shared a new EP called Mid Spiral: Growth. It’s the Canadian instrumental crew’s fourth release of the year following the one-off single “Take What’s Given”, "Mid Spiral: Chaos" and "Mid Spiral: Order" EPs. They also contributed to the Talking Heads tribute album that’s out on Friday.

BADBADNOTGOOD have shared a new EP called Mid Spiral: Order. It’s the Canadian instrumental crew’s third release of the year following the one-off single “Take What’s Given” and "Mid Spiral: Chaos" EP. They also contributed to the Talking Heads tribute album that’s out on Friday.

BADBADNOTGOOD have shared a new EP called Mid Spiral: Order. It’s the Canadian instrumental crew’s third release of the year following the one-off single “Take What’s Given” and "Mid Spiral: Order" EP. They also contributed to the Talking Heads tribute album that’s out on Friday.