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All four musicians in avant-rock supergroup Body MeÏaâdrummer Greg Fox, bassist Melvin Gibbs, and guitarists Sasha Frere-Jones and Grey McMurrayâhave spent their careers in myriad contexts, and their debut album together,
The Work Is Slow, finds them operating in yet another mode, dishing out sprawling post-rock jams both jazzy and psychedelic. One could point to previous efforts as antecedentsâjazz-fusion freak-outs in Gibbsâ Power Tools, funk-rock meanderings in Frere-Jonesâ Ui, drugged-out fuzz in Foxâs Teeth Mountainâbut the quartet sounds supremely focused on this record. More than their other output, the goal here is to entrance.