The lure for aggro-industrial metal heads to throw down their guitars and pick up a blunted saxophone style can't be an everyday occurrence. Yet that's precisely what funked-out, jazz-friendly, trip-hop musicians 9 Lazy 9 did -- even when it's not entirely clear why. There are a lot of loose, filtered dance loops underneath unstructured jazz. Quite a number of danceable grooves along with nary a vocal. Lethargic, free-floating pieces like "Shak" and "Not Nice" search for that chill-out funk most widely known in Groove Armada bedrooms, but the album seems so expansive that it fails to make much of a detectable impact. Genre switching is certainly entertaining -- and healthy -- for new bands. The problem's that Paradise Blown is too nascent, too speculative, that its trip-hopped-up intentions are left nodding themselves off into slumber. by Dean Carlson - AMG

Tracklisting:
01. 5:00 am
02. Shak
03. Turn Me Loose
04. All Aboard
05. Summer
06. The Herb
07. Brothers Of The Red
08. Take Nine
09. Spoonful Of Slow
10. Bad Boy
11. Hot Nice
12. Interland
13. Gossip/Bad Boy
14. It's Late
15. Lotto Jisco