Brilliant collective impro from a British jazz supergroup

Playing mostly improvised music, and deftly navigating a space between fierceness and sensitivity, the four musicians (and friends) have created a dialogue of singular voices that converse and battle with extraordinary fluency, an openness to listening, and a miraculously shared sense of evolving form.

Mark Kidel The Arts Desk

https://theartsdesk.com/new-music/album-137-strangeness-oscillations

Easily one of the strongest and most enjoyable records of the year.

From a snarling, exhilarating punk-jazz to more meditative, electronica drenched swirls,there is a strong rhythmic and harmonic logic across each piece that could be mistaken for the tunes being tightly scored so tight is this band.A combination of shuffling trip-hop rhythms, post-rock riffs and splintering chords, and Stabbins’ unique cross-genre lines that use the end of jazz as the point from which they begin

Chris Baber, Jazz Views

https://jazzviews.net/137-strangeness-oscillation/

It is a blast of fresh air, oscillating between tripped out and plugged in tenor saxophone wildness and gentler, more reflective flute-led tracks.It is jazz. But it is also rock. And it most definitely is art

Chris May All About Jazz

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/strangeness-oscillation-137-noetic-records

The album’s eight tracks tremble and bristle together like post-rockers Mogwai, had they cut their teeth on Weather Report and Barry Adamson.The hot and clammy mix is deliberately rockist, and the animal spirits of the players closer to a thrillingly undisciplined cacophony than anything borne of jazz ‘orthodoxy’.A psychedelic-motorik cavalcade, leading not towards the autobahn, but on to other, Sun-Ra-esque dimensions.Although the players have impeccable avant-garde credentials, musically 137 pop the mainstream jugular

Tariq Goddard The Quietus

https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/137-strangeness-oscillation-review/

This is a monster of a band: loud, skronky , and dangerous-sounding.They could become a real goer too, a festival act that really does pull no punches.

Phil Johnson UK Jazz News

https://londonjazznews.com/2024/07/30/137-at-the-exchange-in-bristol/#comments

A cinematic post-rock quartet that’s all about mood texture and Stabbins’re-ignited joy in playing.

Mark Cooper Mojo Magazine

For all their years of experience, this music was as fresh as it gets. You sensed the musicians were feeling the kind of primal glee in the act of playing together that had made them choose this career in the first place.

Tony Benjamin Bristol24/7

https://www.bristol247.com/culture/music/review-137-phil-gibbs-exchange-as-fresh-as-it-gets/

Whatever you call it, the fresh energy of the 137 sound is likely to grab people by the ears and maybe even leave them speechless

Tony Benjamin Bristol24/7

https://www.bristol247.com/culture/music/adrian-utley-stries-shake-jazz-past-new-all-star-project-137/