Bugs in Amber

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{{Infobox album|

| name = Bugs in Amber

| type = Studio album

| artist = Get the Blessing

| cover = Bugs in Amber.jpeg

| alt =

| released = 22 April 2009

| recorded = 2008

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| studio =

| genre = jazz rock

| length =

| label = Cake/Candid

| producer =

| prev_title = All is Yes

| prev_year = 2008

| next_title = OCDC

| next_year = 2012

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = The Guardian

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jun/05/get-the-blessing-bugs-in-amber |date=5 June 2009 |work=The Guardian |author=John Fordham |title=the Blessing, Bugs in Amber(Cake/Candid) |accessdate=2009-11-17}}

|rev2=The Sunday Times|rev2Score= {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article6148095.ece |date=26 April 2009|work=The Sunday Times |author=Clive Davis |title=Get The Blessing: Bugs in Amber |accessdate=2009-11-17}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

|rev3=The Independent|rev3Score=(not rated){{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-get-the-blessing-bugs-in-amber-cake-1678338.html |date=3 May 2009 |work=The Independent |author=Phil Johnson |title=Album: Get the Blessing, Bugs in Amber, (Cake) |accessdate=2009-11-17}}}}

Bugs in Amber is the second album by the Bristol based jazz rock quartet Get the Blessing, released in 2009 (see 2008 in music).

The tracks are all instrumental, although other versions of "The Unnameable" and "Bugs in Amber" (re-titled "Moot") have been performed with vocals live,{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k4l5c |date=4 May 2009 |work=BBC Radio 3 |title=Jazz on 3 – Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2009 |accessdate=2009-11-17}} and recorded in session for the BBC 6Music Freakzone programme.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/freakzone/tracklisting_20090517.shtml |date=17 May 2009 |work=BBC 6Music |title=Freakzone tracklisting |accessdate=2009-11-17}}

The album was favourably received by the British broadsheets. The Sunday Times stated that "Get the Blessing care little for the rule book: “wonky rock-jazz” is how the Bristol quartet sum up the sax and trumpet interplay. There’s a cool intelligence at work... Deamer lays down the firmest of beats without drowning his colleagues in the backwash. One of the quirkiest British releases of the year". The Guardian noted that "this follow-up... cuts the excellent Judge and McMurchie a lot more solo slack, while sustaining the strength of the composing, the deafening dancefloor drive and the ensemble inventiveness", and summed up with "This is a really varied and inventive genre-crossing set". The Independent felt the band "sound even more live and dangerous on this follow-up" and "like Big Air, the horns now take their thrashy/delicate influences from the Balkans as much as free jazz".