Australian trio The Necks have consistently made music that is at once mesmerizing yet never static. Whether it’s a single piece or the span of an entire album, their musical approach is always captivating. Disquiet is the band’s 20th album. It contains four works spread across three discs and three hours. Keyboardist Chris Abrahams, upright and electric bassist Lloyd Swanton, and drummer/percussionist Tony Buck on drums and percussion have always been considered a jazz trio, but in actuality, the Necks’ music is unclassifiable.
The first two discs contain a track each, the third contains two. Opener “Rapid Eye Movement” offers a spectral, minor-key piano pattern answered by a strummed bass chord as drums adorn the margin sans pulse. Abrahams adds his…