Big Lazy

.an impressive bittersweet album called “Postcards from X.” Led by the elegant guitarist Stephen Ulrich, the band’s new material consists of dark songs featuring Ulrich’s reverb-and-tremelo drenched playing backed by junk-yard grooves from the rhythm section.------------THE NEW YORKER--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------One New York band with a knack for terror is the supple, vocalless guitar-bass-drums trio Big Lazy. On their eponymous CD they conjure dark streets where you can hear sirens wail and trucks rumble.----------------------------------------------------PLAYBOY MAGAZINE------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------It’s not enough to call the veteran local group Big Lazy virtuosic. True, the instrumental trio’s precise evocation of urban moods and tensions on its fourth album, Postcards from X, is done with wrist-flick assuredness. But anyone can practice themselves into slick competence; these guys tuck their magic into subtle details, as when guitarist Stephen Ulrich lets a melody go just slightly flat, or the audible slack that reverberates off stand-up bassist Paul Dugan’s strings. Of course, immense talent is required to charge so confidently through a version of tango king Astor Piazzolla’s “Pulsacion 4.” It’s Big Lazy’s ease with a range of emotions—peering up from NYC’s gutters and down from the city’s night sky—that makes its music right for jukeboxes in bars both divey and swank. ---------------------------TIME OUT NY---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.The Big Apple Crème de la Crème: an instrumental trio that doesn't so much balance Jazz dexterity and rock aggression as stick 'em both in your ear. Right, they're suitable for soundtracks. But anybody who wants to call them ambient better talk to me first.The smart soundtrack noir of their eponymous CD turns fierce- Tin Hat Trio with hard-hat brio, Tortoise in a bunker instead of a boite, Mingus by

split decision over the Raybeats. They're very New York and perfect

for a time so more-than-words-can say.--------------------------------ROBERT CHRISTGAU/VILLAGE VOICE----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Given these days of boilerplate, prefab pop culture, it's pretty damn rare that you actually hear anything truly original. Thank the gods then for Big Lazy, an all-instrumental Brooklyn trio who, while influenced by the past, are in no way beholden to it. Combining Rain Dogs -era Tom Waits, bottom-heavy Link Wray grind, and a certain rockabilly savoir, this guitar-bass-drum trio raises a compellingly inventive racket. Daring, noirish music ideal for the soundtrack to the film you wish Quentin Tarantino would make-----CREATIVE LOAFING, Atlanta--------------------------------------------------------------------

----------------Big Lazy, the elegantly gritty instrumental trio led by the extraordinary guitarist Stephen Ulrich. The band, which was formerly known as Lazy Boy and recently lost a long-running battle with the La-Z-Boy corporation over its name, plays stunningly beautiful music that evokes everything from truckers' romps to the haunting film scores of Bernard Hermann. ------THE NEW YORKER