Boy-Girl Band

Boy-Girl Band: Drop Your Leotards!

by Mark Sabbatini
December 8, 2004

This is one of those albums where one of the worst things to be said about it is it makes lousy background music.

Boy-Girl Band is a Colorado-based quartet (two men, two women) whose name suggests they're part of some raging teeny-bopper trip-hop scene. It's actually a group of accomplished musicians whose debut album, Drop Your Leotards!, is an eclectic mix of modernistic jazz, free improvisation and extremely odd spoken interludes. Too much multitasking, in other words, for ...