HEATWAVES

Kappa APOLLON

DEV

Norwegians bring the heady summer vibes on chilled debut. Jazz prog can be a wilfully knotty, tricky beast, but Bergen’s Heatwaves smooth out its thornier edges on their impressive debut album Kappa. Closer in spirit to late 80s/early 90s acid jazz than it is to Mahavishnu Orchestra or UK, it’s a languid affair that mixes deep grooves and breakbeats with gauzy psychedelia and the whiff of hipster folk (the title Kappa itself could equally refer to the Greek letter or the Italian sportswear brand popular with so-called ‘acid casuals’ and actor Samuel L Jackson). Like Tame Impala’s similarly frictionless The Slow Rush, there are no sharp corners here. Everything is wrapped in the kind of heat haze the band’s name suggests: Dirty Rats and Hercule Poirot ebb and flow, taking…

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