Scree’s 2023 debut, Jasmine on a Night in July, was one of the year’s most pleasant surprises: a guitar-bass-drums trio doing its best to sound like a big band, aiming for the languid quality of Duke Ellington’s most elegant suites while benefiting from the scrappy intuition honed across many nights playing Brooklyn art spaces like the Owl. On their second album, August, Scree actually are a big band, calling in a cadre of players to fill in the flourishes: strings, horns, woodwinds, even steel guitar that pushes their music toward something like slowed-down Western swing.
The core trio of guitarist Ryan El-Solh, bassist Carmen Quill, and drummer Jason Burger approach their craft less with the ferocity of a surf band than the meticulous ear for…

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