LAST SCENE ALIVE: New Noise Magazine Streams World Class Pep Talk, The Skillfully Infectious Debut From Transatlantic Electro-Jazz Fusion Trio, Ahead Of Its Release This Friday

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New Noise Magazine is hosting an exclusive stream of World Class Pep Talk, the debut release from the dynamic and unique new American/Dutch jazz fusion trio LAST SCENE ALIVE, ahead of its release this Friday.

A hard-hitting hurricane of saxophone, synths, and rhythm, the transatlantic trio LAST SCENE ALIVE sees Amsterdam-based saxophonist Graham Robertson (Odd Circus) and Washington, DC-based synth player Zack Be (ex-Pretty Bitter) and drummer Sean Sidley (Jack Waugh, The Economy, Dissenters) collaborating on the band’s debut album, World Class Pep Talk. The band occupies a space where the bizarre meets the accessible: math rock anthems, jazz fusion breakbeats, expansive progressive rock passages, punk rock energy, and synth rock club bangers seamlessly coalescing under one umbrella.

LAST SCENE ALIVE’s powerful, singular sound on World Class Pep Talk guarantees a unique experience to listeners from a wide array of genres, injecting a tongue-in-cheek cynicism into the music almost entirely without lyrics. The album was recorded and mixed by band members Graham Robertson and Zack Be, mastered by Be, and completed with cover art by Ange Omer Rheaume. Garrett Gleason provides guitar to “Better To Be Alone Than In Bad Company” and Taisha Estrada adds vocals to “Summit Not The Chasm.” At a crucial time for the trending “alternative jazz” movement, this trio emerges poised to plant a flag. When you’ve exhausted the alternatives, you go to the LAST SCENE ALIVE.

With the album on the eve of release, saxophonist Graham Robertson writes, “This is a band born out of a frenzied state. Like absolute lunatics we booked our first show three weeks away without any material written, and the race was on to create a set of original music. In retrospect, the urgency did something special. We put our usual creative filters on hold and operated mostly on instinct, embracing sounds from our biggest and most far-flung musical heroes. We hope World Class Pep Talk captures the excitement of that moment—the raw fibers of two lifelong voracious musical appetites turned outward.”

Hear LAST SCENE ALIVE’s World Class Pep Talk first only at New Noise Magazine RIGHT HERE.

LAST SCENE ALIVE will self-release World Class Pep Talk digitally this Friday, March 6th. Find preorders at Bandcamp HERE and digital presaves HERE, and if you missed it, catch the videos for “Mad News Travels Fast” HERE and the “Better To Be Alone Than In Bad Company” HERE.

Watch for more on LAST SCENE ALIVE to be announced in the weeks ahead.

“The sounds blend together to create a fun, relentlessly optimistic celebration of musicianship and, well, superhero-like abilities.” – Everything Is Noise

“Robertson’s opening note of the lead single, ‘Mad News Travels Fast,’ will instantly insert you amid the controlled chaos of this multi-talented trio. True to jazz form, the baritone sax lays out the main theme, supplemented by Be’s zany orchestrations and Sidley’s incredible speed… One of the highlights of Pep Talk is its many curveballs.” – Jace Media Music

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