Bassist Anna Butterss, synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, saxophonist Josh Johnson, percussionist Booker Stardrum, and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann teamed up under the name SML to release last year’s debut album Small Medium Large on Chicago’s phenomenal International Anthem label. It was a jazz record, sort of, but with all those eerie drones and hyperactive rhythms, you could be forgiven for calling it post-rock. (I’d call it Chicago post-rock, specifically, though SML are from Los Angeles.) Small Medium Large ruled, so it’s with great joy and anticipation that I relate the news of a second LP from SML.
