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[Wasteland Jazz Unit] could peel rust off of chrome, and probably your sanity as well. - Dusted: Still Single

[On Wasteland Jazz Unit] There are few groups out there that do the blown-out, balls-to-the-walls free jazz skronkfests this well. Half the time it sounds like you’re traveling down some side street in Marrakech with a swarm of locusts inside your ears. - Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis blog

Coupling inhuman drum schizophrenia and synthesized electronic buffoonery, [Talibam!] plows through 18+ minutes of manipulated prog rock lunacy… Wasteland Jazz Unit produces an abrasive aural commotion that sounds a little bit like a batch of Axolotl tracks layered on top of each other and then pounded together with a jackhammer. - Forest Gospel

In the first installment of the Ecstatic Jazz Duos series, there is no room for subtlety. On the Talibam! side, the 18-minute “The Geometric Mophometrics of P.P.P.P.P. McNasticals” (what?!) is a multi-part epic unlike anything else in the New York City duo’s recorded output. Matt Motel (synthesizer) and Kevin Shea (drums) run through the cacophonous noise-jazz most of us know them for, but also seamlessly engage in righteously proggy pursuits taking hits off King Crimson and Keith Emerson. On the B-side, Wasteland Jazz Unit gurgles shrapnel on two rippers for amplified saxophone (Jon Lorenz) and clarinet (John Rich). Cincinnati’s premier Art Damage skater-jazz crew have recorded with the likes of C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and Ryan Jewell (Pink Reason, Psychedelic Horseshit), and here deliver an aural abuse that just ruins your day. Edition of 500.