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- Record Label: New Deal Records/Impulse! Records
- Release Date: Aug 22, 2025
- Summary: The second full-length release from the collaboration between Pino Palladino and Blake Mills features contributions by Chris Dave and Sam Gendel.
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- Record Label: New Deal Records/Impulse! Records
- Genre(s): Jazz, Pop/Rock
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MojoOct 21, 2025Great to hear these session giants unchained. [Oct 2025, p.83]
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UncutOct 21, 2025The hightlight is the 14-minute, exploratory "Heat Sink", as the pair size up and seduce each other like a pair of tropical birds in an elaborate courtship dance. [Oct 2025, p.31]
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Oct 21, 2025It ["Heat Sink"] feels both longer and shorter than its 14 minutes, a trick that Palladino and Mills pull off on every track on the album; each lyrical passage is an instruction manual for experiencing nonlinear time. That Wasn’t a Dream is music as quantum theory, using the expanse between speakers to pass through dimensions.
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Oct 21, 2025That Wasn't a Dream is an unexpected, welcome surprise. Its ambitious tonal, textural, and harmonic palettes are intricately tied in a series of sonically sophisticated compositions reflecting the endless possibilities for 21st century jazz in improvisation, aesthetic inclusion, and production.