Two and a half years after their debut LP, 23 Seconds dazzled critics and lit up dance floors worldwide, Cobblestone Jazz are back with a powerhouse new album that captures their live-in-the-studio energy like never before. A mixture of heady, jazz-inspired house grooves and below-the-belt analog funk, it raises the bar for electronic dance music in 2010.

Titled The Modern Deep Left Quartet, the record marks an important addition to the Cobblestone Jazz lineup, as the trio of Mathew Jonson, Danuel Tate and Tyger Dhula brings aboard Colin de la Plante (aka the Mole). De la Plante is no newcomer to the Cobblestone crew: the four musicians have been playing together for nearly 15 years and they’ve all shared the stage as the Modern Deep Left Quartet. Now, using the moniker as their new album title, the band officially anoints de la Plante a full-time member of the studio lineup.

All the staples of the Cobblestone Jazz sound are there: subtly swinging machine beats, mindbending arpeggios, Detroit-inspired chord progressions and, of course, powerful bass lines that roll like beads of quicksilver. But the sound of The Modern Deep Left Quartet is unusually fluid, open and nuanced. In marked contrast to today’s hypercompressed, digitalist dance music, this is a sound that breathes like no other. The more deeply you listen, the more hidden details you’ll hear.

Tracklist

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1. Chance Dub 6:40
2. Sun Child 7:40
3. Mr Polite 7:01
4. Cromagnon Man 5:03
5. Fiesta 5:52
6. Children 6:09
7. Chance 7:59
8. Midnight Sun 6:26