Need New Body

Highly Recommended. You'd be hard pressed to find a band more unnerving than Need New Body. The Philadelphia group, risen from the ruins of New Jersey psych /art-rock pranksters BENT LEG FATIMA, is about as unpredictable as they come. The five members swirl organ, drums, sax, bass, pots and pans, banjos, and good and evil spirits into a wicked hurdy gurdy. One gets the feeling that the band's music -- in a way continuing Bent Leg's deconstruction of the Psychedelphia sound into fractious shards of out-jazz, funk, gibber gabber, and derelict cabaret -- is as much for the band's amusement as that of their listeners.