The Plain Black T-Shirts are a Melbourne ensemble playing soul jazz, funk, Latin, and everything delicious in between. Trumpet, flugelhorn, saxes, flute, trombone, Wurlitzer, drums, bass, guitar; the full spread, recorded live at Pughouse Studios in Thornbury. The Plain Black T-Shirts are built around a simple idea: put great players in a room together, set up the mics, press record, let the magic happen and don’t get in the way. Only play what you hear, only play what you feel.

Their debut album Intentionally Left Blank is the document of that experiment: eight tracks of soul jazz, funk, Latin, reggae, and slow-burning ballads, captured live at Pughouse Studios in Thornbury. The writing comes from the group, with one Nat Adderley classic (Sweet Emma) thrown in for good measure. What you hear is the band as it actually sounds in a room; the tunes and arrangements provide structure without strangling it.