SICK BOSS — BUSINESSLESS

Out: November 3rd, 2023 on Drip Audio (LP/CD/DL)
Genres: Experimental Rock, Chamber-Jazz
RIYL: Henry Cow, Jaga Jazzist, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Univers Zero, Tortoise, Terje Rypdal

SICK BOSS — BANDCAMP | act·art·mgt      DRIP AUDIO — WEB

Celebrated sextet SICK BOSS assembles some of Vancouver’s finest improvising musicians under the bold leadership of guitarist and composer Cole Schmidt. The band’s hefty, episodic compositions are mostly built upon sturdy instrumental rock foundations but will colourfully explode into detailed, vigorous arrangements. These expansive pieces inevitably unfurl into passages of improvisatory interplay, textural drift, and even diaphanous chamber-music-like junctures, revealing the vast and imaginative collective capacity of this brilliant group. Their forthcoming effort, Businessless, their first on vinyl, is in many ways more immediate and boisterous than their acclaimed debut. It’s also more strange and volatile. It’s arecord that teems with charisma and nervy energy, swerving impulsively between contrasting arrangements, musical styles and even methodology. Though wildly erratic in certain ways, each cut unleashes at least one big, downright singable melody, and this fact allows SICK BOSS to bound across these seemingly vast sonic and aesthetic chasms without exhausting themselves or listeners.

COVERAGE:
Year-end — Todd Stewart, The RC Top 50 albums list: first annual with Todd Stewart, Rhythm Changes
Year-End — Will Chernoff, Roots Music Canada
Year-End — Avant Music News Best of 2023: Part II – Albums of the Year, Avant Music News
Year-End/ Radio — The Night Shift’s Top 30 of 2023, Met Radio / CJRU
Year-End/ Radio — Top 10 Jazz Releases of 2023, CJLO
Year-End/ Radio — Hunter’s Favorite Records of 2023, WTUL
List — Tinnitist
List — Victim of Jazz
List — Next Week in Music | Oct. 30 – Nov. 5, Tinnitist
List — Upcoming Releases, A Closer Listen
List — A Closer Listen Weekly #42
List — A Closer Listen Weekly #43
List — A Closer Listen Weekly #45
List — 11 Highlights, 80 Releases: November Starts With A Bang, Prog Space
News — Jacopo Vigezzi, Sick Boss released the first single “Useless Genious 2” taken from upcoming new album, Prog Rock Journal
News — Out Nov. 3rd: SICK BOSS’ sophomore album expands their panoramic blend of instrumental rock and free improv, Click Roll Boom
News — Exposé
News — Los Endos
Playlist — Stir Player, Stir
Video Round-up — Upcoming Albums November 2023, Milady Noise
Round-up — Darryl Sterdan, Canadian Beacon | Sluice, Night Lunch, Tim Baker & More New Homegrown Sounds, Tinnitist
Round-up — What’s In Our Inbox, Blood Makes Noise
Round-up — AMN Picks of the Week (November 12, 2023), Avant Music News
Article — Stuart Derdeyn, Music on Main’s Modulus Festival celebrates 12 years of contemporary works : Uncategorizable sextet Sick Boss play an album release show at the 2023 Modulus Festival, Vancouver Sun
Review — Jon Davis, Exposé
Review — Eric Saeger, The Hippo Press
Review — Tom Haugen, Take Effect Reviews
Review — Mike Borella, Avant Music News
Review — Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery Newsletter
Review — David Reed, Belleville Intelligencer
Review — Will Chernoff, Rhythm Changes
Review — Yves Tassin, JazzMania
Review — Gérald de Oliveira, À Découvrir Absolument
Review — Frédéric Cardin, Pan M 360
Review — Cheryl Ockrant, The WholeNote
Review — Chris May, All About Jazz
Review — Jon Worley, Aiding & Abetting
Review — nitestylez.de
Review — Leonid Auskern, Jazz Quad
Single Review — Irregular Dreams
Track Review — Michael Gutierrez, Hump Day News
Podcast — Strombo : Strange Brew Ep 4
Podcast/ Roundup — Different Noises #22
Podcast — La Paire d’Écouteurs – Le Radio Show (Episode #237)
Radio/ Chart — CJSR Top 10 Jazz (February 5, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CJSW Top 10 Experimental/ Modern Classical (February 1, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — Earshot Top 20 Jazz (January)
Radio/ Chart — CJSR Top 10 Jazz (January 29, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CKUT Top 10 Jazz (January 23, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CJSW Top 10 Experimental/ Modern Classical (January 24, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CJSW Top 10 Experimental/ Modern Classical (January 17, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CFUV Top 30 (January 16, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CKUT Top 10 Jazz (January 16, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CJRU Top 30 (January 15, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CJSR Top 10 Jazz (January 15, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CJSW Top 10 Experimental/ Modern Classical (January 10, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CJSW Top 30 (January 10, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CJSR Top 10 Jazz (January 8, 2024)
Radio/ Chart — CJSW Weekly Top 30 (December 20, 2023)
Radio/ Chart — CJSW Top 10 Experimental/ Modern Classical (December 20, 2023)
Radio/ Chart — CJSR Top 10 Jazz (December 19, 2023)
Radio / Chart — CJLO Weekly Top 30 (December 12, 2023)
Radio / Chart — Earshot! National Top 50 (December 5, 2023)
Radio / Chart — CFRU Weekly Top 30 (December 5, 2023)
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Radio / Chart — Earshot! National Top 50 (November 28, 2023)
Radio / Chart — CFRU Weekly Top 30 (November 28, 2023)
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Radio/ Chart — CKUT Weekly Jazz Top 10 (November 21, 2023)
Radio/ Chart — CHLY Weekly Top 30 (November 14, 2023)
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Radio — Voyage, CKUW (February 7, 2024)
Radio — Built To Play, CJRU (February 5, 2024)
Radio — FFFoxy Podcast, KMSU (February 5, 2024)
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Radio — Music As Art Radio, WGDR (January 31, 2024)
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