Thick As Thieves – Let Spin

Some albums move by chapters. Thick As Thieves moves like a pulse. In their fourth album, the European quartet Let Spin abandons any temptation of a retrospective to dive into a more immediate, almost physical form of creation: capturing the unpredictable intensity of their live performance in the studio.

The result is a seamless work where ten pieces are linked without cracks, and ideas appear and disappear like signals in transit. Influences as disparate as the free lyricism of Paul Motian, the raw energy of Carboniferous, or the abrasive spirituality of Albert Ayler function here not as references, but as distant echoes.

What truly defines Thick As Thieves is its internal logic: a constant tension between repetition and rupture, between groove and abstraction. Guitars that turn into texture, basses that mutate into rhythmic engines, and drums that don't just keep time but destabilize it.

It is a journey through a landscape in motion. A space where improvisation is not an ornament, but a language. And where Let Spin confirms that, a decade later, they remain one of the most restless and compelling acts in contemporary European jazz.