Franklin Kiermyer - Further (2014) Lossless

There are times when I receive some odd, angular, challenging album and find it so off-putting it's downright unlikeable. I find it to be some sort of problem with jazz-- how do so many musicians make such frenetic, shambling, unlikeable music and bemoan why the masses just don't come running to their obvious brilliance? Surely it must be something wrong some with the public, not they, the composers of such onanistic, headache-inducing claptrap. But then there's the other side of the coin. Sometimes I receive some odd, angular, challenging album and stand bewildered of all that it is-- art worthy of repeated contemplation, songs that function as prayers as much as they function as the catalytic altar calls. Drummer Franklin Kiermyer's latest album, Further, is by all means the latter.