‘No Time for Poetry (Easy Listening Edition)’ is a reimagined instrumental version of the 2025 album ‘No Time for Poetry’ by the Oakland-based duo The Saxophones. This edition replaces the original vocals with saxophone, bass clarinet, and alto flute lines to create a smooth, “easy listening” experience.
With their first three albums, The Saxophones — married couple Alexi Erenkov (vocals, woodwinds) and Alison Alderdice (drums, backing vocals) with multi-instrumentalist Richard Laws — have established a haunting and dreamy, lightly jazz-inflected style of minimalist indie pop that evokes smoky back rooms, seaside reflection, romance, and the analog era.
Their fourth LP, No Time for Poetry, finds them…