Avant-Rock, mathy freakouts, off-kilter jazz, ambient sound sculpture and abstract improvisation

Fond of Tigers’ second album, Release the Saviours is an ambitious and focused synthesis of mathy freakouts, off-kilter jazz, ambient sound sculpture, abstract improvisation, and a rare feel for making music that is both challenging and highly listenable.

Much of the ecstatic intensity on Release the Saviours comes from the group’s self-immolating interest in unusual rhythmic and melodic structure, as well as instrumental arrangements that are the sonic equivalent of roller derby and jai-alai played simultaneously in a racquetball court. But even when some parts sound like the band has split into teams and angrily squared off against each other, the attentive listener is rewarded—after some suspense—as the parts come do at last come together, the music as joyful as it is visceral.

"...barbed-wire noise and ambient weirdness..." - Paris Transatlantic Magazine

"...a perfect ice-breaker for out-jazzers and disaffected hipsters." - Down Beat

"...instrumental wonders...atmospheric and very Chicago." - The Globe and Mail