

Intoxicating future-jazz messages from a distant galaxy are beamed your way on this freewheeling psychedelic debut. The Comet Is Coming was born when producer/pioneers Soccer 96 (synth specialist Dan Leavers and drummer Maxwell Hallett) invited multi-instrumentalist Shabaka Hutchings to join them, and a magical psychedelic-jazz-rave trio was born. “Space Carnival” packs hyperactive Afrobeat horns and “Lightyears”—augmented by Joshua Idehen’s charismatic spoken word—is a stunning nebula of frenzied improvisation.