Club d’Elf<br /> Now I Understand<br /> – Michael Brodeur<br /> Dig – Boston’s weekly

Mike Rivard's Club d'Elf has been steaming up empty pint glasses in the confines of Cambridge's Lizard Lounge off and on for nearly 10 years now, incorporating a seemingly endless roster of collaborators and tunneling indiscriminately through the foundations of every musical genre known to man. So the idea of committing any of this into a representative studio debut is preposterous—hence the seven live albums that preceded this—but we mean good-preposterous. Bounding from funk to soul, swimming through every temperature of electronica, and mining the talents of DJ Logic, Mat Maneri, Jenifer Jackson and John Medeski (to name a fraction), the Club's proper debut is nothing short of, um… kaleidophonic