JamBands.comAin't
That Somethin'
- D.C. & Co.
With their old-style big-band balladery, Dave Costrarella's D.C. & Co. is a
sweet, sentimental band, and Ain't That Somethin' is a sweet, sentimental
record. Sometimes innovation is just finding a new way of staying traditional in
an ever-changing landscape. And though D.C. & Co. surely do have some rock
tendencies, they've assimilated them as a style in the same way that jambands
have assimilated funk or drum-n-bass. The disc is low-key music for, oddly,
families. There are few superstar pretensions here and little wanking. The mood
is almost of a ballroom in the Poconos, which is as strange a place as one can
be transported to as anything conjured up by Amon Tobin or any other crazy
electronic producer. Oblique Strategies sez: "Into the impossible."