Breezy and The Blazers Drop A Live Session Album

An album release from Breezy and The Blazers brings on a set of songs that hit such classic and vintage tones and aesthetics while giving the air of live performance energy, and this classic rock jamming that really just comes through with a vibrancy and excitable vibe, and the whole thing is completely infectious.

The record is called Bootleg Attic Jamski, so based on that name alone, you can tell that this is indeed a set of live performances. This is one of the most important aspects of the record because that's what gives it so much vibrancy and vivacious energy that comes oozing out of every single track.

When you listen to this thing, you can tell they were just having an absolute ball, and that spirited and youthful approach is something that clings on to you and it sticks throughout the rest of the record, giving it lots of character.

Some of these tracks are a little outside the box and experimental, but I definitely dig that as well. What really hits the most is the aesthetic that they deliver. They give off this vintage classic rock sort of feel, and that is due to not only the guitar work, just wailing and crushing it, but there are keys throughout this record that really help shape the whole thing.

The tracks are built on people in a room, feeding off of each other. You can sense that when you listen to the songs, and not just because of the semi-lo-fi approach that they take. 

You get elements of rock, jazz, progressive songwriting, improvisation, loads of musical spark just flying around the room, and it's all captured so well that it puts you right there in the moment.

I feel like that's part of what this record is all about. It puts you in the room with them, jamming right alongside and just feeding off of all this musical texture and color that they're giving off.

Songs like 'Rip With It" serve as a damn near perfect example of exactly what I mean.

One of the things that really grabs you with this album is the drumming. The drumming throughout this entire thing is absolutely outstanding and not only serves as a driving force behind the songs, but also feeds that liveliness into the jams.

These are some of the attributes where you can hear jazz and rock elements as well. There's a lot of jazz drumming happening throughout these tracks, and the drummer performing it knows how to stay in the pocket but also just give off that alive so that the songs come through bright and with a certain kind of bounce, a lot of the time.

Then there are songs like "Swamp", which feed more into that classic rock vibe, and you can start hearing a slew of influences that these guys are inspired by about halfway through the record.

This is the kind of album you listen to from start to finish.

There are more than a few surprises around the corners, and by the time you get halfway through, you begin to expect a little bit of the unexpected, and these guys certainly deliver that with some experimental and outside-the-box approaches, along with the classically approached jamming.

I definitely just get attached to the whole bootleg live performance aesthetic, and I think it's brilliant that they released a record like this because it gives you a perfect example of what it's like to actually see them perform in a room.

Based on the energy alone, I would absolutely 100% be there.

This was way more fun than I expected it to be, even with that title, and some of these songs pack a punch, while others grab you in a more subtle manner, but whatever you get, it's going to be something that you remember.

This was an album that spans 15 tracks and is around 40 minutes long, so it's nice and packed with this sort of rambunctiously thriving songs, and believe me when I tell you, you will feed off of that live energy.

This is the kind of record that has a strange way of sticking with you. After I listened to the whole thing, I actually felt like I saw a performance.

I don't even remember the last time I felt like that after listening to an album.

The guitar tones were a little bit different from song to song at times, but so were the keys, drumming, and everything else. They have some diversity to what they're doing, but they also sort of go with the flow, so it does incorporate some of that improvisation I mentioned earlier and blends the rock with the jazz extremely well while keeping things fun, beat, hard-hitting when they want it to be, and a bit progressive.

Either way, this is definitely an album to dive right into and listen to with headphones on or at least nice and Loud.

Check this out, and again, I suggest doing the entire record in one shop because again, it puts you right there in the moment perfectly.

Dive into this one now and remember where you heard it first.

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