Take Five: The Comet is Coming, James Brandon Lewis, Louis Cole, Snarky Puppy, and Butcher Brown

The Comet Is Coming, “CODE”

When we first hailed UK rave-improv trio The Comet Is Coming back in 2017, the band’s narrative of apocalyptic jams felt like a cheeky hook. From the vantage of our recent news cycle, it looks more a straight-faced response to facts on the ground. Whatever the case, there’s no doubting the raw sensation of physical abandon that the band — Danalogue on synthesizers, Betamax on drums, Shabaka on tenor saxophone — creates with its molten convergence of club rhythm, punk energy and interstellar jazz.