Album stream
http://hypem.com/premiere/jam+city
(the hype machine still exists?)
― Number None, Monday, 16 March 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
this was a real "ambushed by unexpected emotion" album for me
on paper nothing about it should be my thing but it hits hard. the lyrics are great.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 09:04 (nine years ago) link
I loved Classical Curves but this is way better, although they are so different it feels silly trying to compare them.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:23 (nine years ago) link
classical curves left me very cold at the time but has actually sort of clicked in the light of this!
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
not heard the new one yet (why does night slugs' artwork seem so dull now?) but how could how we relate to the body or club thanz leave someone cold?
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link
no tunes, not very hooky, not very danceable, just sort of clanky and metallic
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 23:14 (nine years ago) link
not hooky, okay, i can see that, but those two songs had quite a lot going for them, sensual/warm textures-wise. no big tunes, sure, but enough other stuff in its place. never felt like it was dreary or lacking purpose/momentum, which is often what happens on dance albums. and if you like 80s R&B, i think you would be able to get behind them. not everything has to grab you by the balls!
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 23:25 (nine years ago) link
i wouldn't have listened to an album of 80s r&b instrumentals!
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 23:32 (nine years ago) link
but now you have the chance to! anyway, i get the criticisms of the album as a whole, but there are songs on there i think deserve to be heard in their own right. like, that kingdom track bankhead is one of the best things night slugs ever put out, and i consider those jam city songs of a piece with that. anyway, the new album seems to come with some ridiculous conceptual baggage but im hoping the actual music doesnt pay too much attention to it.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 23:36 (nine years ago) link
― lex pretend, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 4:32 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0IwtsLgmFc
― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 23:52 (nine years ago) link
Despite the press materials dressing this up it is essentially an "angry and disillusioned young man rallies against society" album, the kind of thing that has always existed, just done differently and well.
I think Classical Curves makes more sense now its influence has entrenched itself in contemporary dance music. Not to say that it is singular and unique - there were plenty of acts doing similar things - but it exists at a very specific intersection of zones that seems a lot less unnatural now.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:51 (nine years ago) link
classical curves def took a lil while to click for me but when it did, hoooo boy
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:53 (nine years ago) link
Is this different in any significant way from the usual NS clanking murk or should I just not bother?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 19 March 2015 12:04 (nine years ago) link
it's completely unlike anything on NS to date. on paper it's even less my thing but idk, the alienation and disillusion aren't just in the press materials, they're in the very good lyrics as well, and it's ultimately a very optimistic album
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
relevant to interests
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02m9pn5
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 19 March 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
i like this new jam city a lot
― the late great, Monday, 23 March 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
same, pretty groovy
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 March 2015 02:28 (nine years ago) link
very wavey
― the late great, Monday, 23 March 2015 03:34 (nine years ago) link
I really disliked this on first listen.
― Matt DC, Monday, 23 March 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― the late great, Monday, 23 March 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link
can't please everybody, i guess
This sounded amazing walking through my town centre at 6am this morning while everything was quiet and serene.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 23 March 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
one listen in, liking it a lot. possibly fucking miiiiiles off here, but there's kind of a late 80s boyband as produced by andy stott vibe, also a murkified beachy thing happening too.
― cgi bubka (NickB), Monday, 23 March 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
It just reminded me of any number of sadsack laptop dudes who can't really sing. I really hate that big aluminium synth all over this as well.
― Matt DC, Monday, 23 March 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
People I know were comparing it to Disco Inferno which just made the disappointment more acute, feels like he's just gone from one pole of lameness to another.
― Matt DC, Monday, 23 March 2015 22:31 (nine years ago) link
also a murkified beachy thing happening too.
yeah made me think of strategy
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 March 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
xp how rockist of you, matt dc
― the late great, Monday, 23 March 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
I can hear the DI thing actually, slight shades of 'The Last Dance' with that guitar.
― cgi bubka (NickB), Monday, 23 March 2015 22:37 (nine years ago) link
I can totally see the sadsack laptop dudes thing but even despite that I still think this is really great. The two things it really reminds me of are last year's Dean Blunt and Maria Minerva albums (which were my two favourites of 2014). NickB's description is spot-on.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 23 March 2015 22:41 (nine years ago) link
the lyrics give this an emotional heft beyond the usual sadsack laptop dude thing
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:45 (nine years ago) link
i have never heard of disco inferno tho
wtf are you even a real ilx poster
― Tim F, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:49 (nine years ago) link
jokes - but that's just too good.
not that i expect you to like disco inferno!
― Tim F, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:50 (nine years ago) link
there are loads of 80s indieish bands i've always seen old-skool ilx reference (scritti politti, blue nile too). never heard any of them apart from one scritti politti song
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:55 (nine years ago) link
The Blue Nile aren't indieish.
Disco Inferno are indieish though and you will probably hate those aspects of them.
This shit (Jam City) sounds good on random soundcloud listen but I'd need to sit with it a lot more to know for certain (and who sits these days).
― Tim F, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:58 (nine years ago) link
Here is classic DI if you want to test that proposition though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BFNX78vZE8
― Tim F, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 12:02 (nine years ago) link
This sounds like something you'd play at an indie ren faire I'm into it
― 龜, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 12:15 (nine years ago) link
lex doesn't know "cupid & psyche 85" WTF
― the late great, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
how is that surprising
― swae lee is the sremmurd for rae dad (crüt), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
this is not night slugs but i couldn't figure out where else to put it up
http://soundcloud.com/a-k-paul/landcruisin
― the late great, Friday, 25 March 2016 14:53 (eight years ago) link
searching "jai paul" in posts gives some funny results. point/counterpoint starring lex & rev.
this is very prince-y.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 25 March 2016 16:21 (eight years ago) link
yes
― the late great, Friday, 25 March 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
lol I hate Jai Paul, I was just trolling lex
― Hey (Extended Mix), Saturday, 26 March 2016 05:45 (eight years ago) link
what's there to hate?
― the late great, Saturday, 26 March 2016 06:34 (eight years ago) link
everything pretty much
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 26 March 2016 11:07 (eight years ago) link
He must be friends with virtually everyone in the media and the music industry. It's the only reason to think of for such continuing interest and anticipation around a dude with such a shoddy and minimal output. It's, what, five years since he was first hyped and you still read "Jai Paul might finally release his debut album this year!" articles on sites that should know better.
By this point they might as well be repping for Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 26 March 2016 11:23 (eight years ago) link
Oh wait, this is his brother. Might give this a listen on the offchance he's the talented one in the family.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 26 March 2016 11:25 (eight years ago) link
sick burns everyone *golf clap*
― the late great, Sunday, 27 March 2016 01:26 (eight years ago) link
new comp sounding pretty okay
https://www.residentadvisor.net/feed/97057
― the late great, Thursday, 24 November 2016 06:28 (seven years ago) link
https://jam-city.bandcamp.com/album/pillowland
new jam city album
― ufo, Saturday, 14 November 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link