Cody Steinmann Releases an Experimental and Endlessly Fun EP

A new release from Cody Steinmann brings along several fellow musicians and artists to create something that has a slightly outlandish but incredibly fun, progressive, jazz undertone and rock overtone jam style approach, and this record delivers such a robust atmosphere that you just fall into it as it invites you to float alongside everything that's going on.

This is a five-track EP and features Nic Cacioppo, JD Allen Solomon Parham, Bryan Murray,  and Proper-T, who are all on different tracks throughout the release, helping its diverse set of approaches come to fruition.

The EP is called Barely Anyone Calls Me So I Just Stay At Home And Make My Own Damn Music.

The full title of the EP is spread out across the five different tracks as their individual titles, so the first song is called "Barely Anyone Calls Me".

This is an outstanding introduction to the record because it does bear some of the staples that you'll hear throughout the full release. You have jamming guitars, progressive and outstanding percussion that not only drives the song, but it gives it a free-flow sort of form.

This is a strong element and attribute of the entire release. A lot of this feels like it was recorded live on the floor, and anyone involved was feeding off of each other's energies the entire time, creating this almost improvised session of flowing songs.

There's something special about that kind of energy. It does have a specific way of putting you there in the moment. Of course, I wasn't there for the recording, so I'm not sure that's how they did it, but this gives you that feeling.

This first track certainly blends that jazz tonality, especially with the percussion in the guitars. The guitars are dripping with this sort of delay effect, and it gives the track an added spaciousness.

The following track, "So I Just", bears some of the same attributes but hits a little bit harder. It comes through a little bit heavier; there are different sorts of experimentation on the guitar work and the approach to the whole thing, and you have these enlightening, harmonious vocals that come floating in and out of the track, and this gives the whole thing a different vibe.

Those vocals add a new texture to the already robust and experimental soundscape that you hear, so they really build on that atmosphere I mentioned earlier, but in a different way.

There's a little bit more color to the song because of those vocals.

"Stay At Home" is the following track, and this one has a trumpet contribution. Now the trumpet also adds a new texture, and it fits in so strangely well to this eclectic and vast vibe that's already coming from the record.

It's almost strange how well the trumpet fits in, as if it were just a natural course. For this session, it certainly was, and it does well for the song's natural flow simply because the trumpet sort of rolls on, peeking in and out of the track when it feels like it, again, adding to that improvisation feel, and the guitars have a different kind of effect on them this time around.

It sounds almost like some kind of strange octavizer. Either way, the guitar always has an expansive and experimental tone and effects to it because that makes the songs come through with that outside-the-box and slightly wild approach.

Trumpet comes in again for another track, and it becomes a noted staple for some of the jazzier sides of the record.

I love how this whole thing was put together, with that thick atmosphere it delivers because it's so unique that you can't turn away from it.

The drumming and percussion throughout this whole thing is a key point in how the songs come through with this excitability or smooth and subtle flow.

The drumming is the controller of the intensity levels, and it's so addictive to listen to how in the pocket but loaded with fills it is, and that again, jazz experimentation.

Listening to this record simply makes me want to go see them perform it live, right in my face.

This is the kind of record that serves as a great escape, and that's exactly what it did for me.

The whole thing feels a bit cinematic and ambient, blending genres at free will, which is something I think more artists and musicians should approach.

It is very easy to get engulfed by this record, and it also feels great to do exactly that.

But, don't just take my word for it, listen to this record and do it with headphones on because it's one of the better ways to soak in all those awesome layers and textures that it delivers.

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