Nicolas Jaar: I was a Teenage Villalobos

I’m a total dilettante when it comes to this guy, liked Darkside a lot, but was playing a bunch of AAL today. It’s pretty fucking good.

Like the Lydia Lunch cut-up on the new album. “If you can’t do it good, do it hard” is a good mantra tbh.

I love the new one but I pretty much adore all of his records, no matter the moniker and style. Space, Sirens, Darkside, AAL, the Pomegranates re-scoring... He's just brilliant.

Love 2017-2019. There's also a 12" with more sampled Lydia Lunch.

yeah this one is in line with the previous one i.e. very good

This single/album really are just incredible.

And there's a new Jaar LP out next week.

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https://nicolasjaar.bandcamp.com/album/cenizas

New album “Cenizas” is out.

At this point, I don’t think he is capable of releasing a bad album.

“Mud” is my favorite on first listen but the whole thing is great as usual.

I'm like three minutes into this album and ready to declare it great.

A lot of contrasts here. Can't say I like all of it but some parts I love. The closing track is a nice pop reward for listening patiently to the rest.

Just getting to this album. It's great and is a perfect fit for my current self-isolation. Sort of a drunk ambient record, stumbling from track to track, never settling into a single zone yet still adding up to a coherent mood. If that makes sense.

makes perfect sense, pgwp

cheers to NJ

His third album of the year, Telas, was released on Friday. “Cenizas was the ashes of a destruction. Telas is the fabrics of a construction.” Haven't had the chance to listen yet but apparently it's 4 ambient-ish tracks, each around 15 minutes.

It's good though i like Cenizas more.

I hadn't heard about the site

"the website { https://www.telas.parts } is where telas lives in its liquid form. it was created by abeera kamran and somnath bhatt with sounds by nicolás. somnath and nicolás started working on illustrations for telas in january 2018 and the website was developed alongside abeera in the last three months."

Thought the AAL album was outstanding on first listen earlier this year. Need to go back to it.

Can’t stand AAL, but both releases under the Jaar ‘moniker’ this year are stellar.

All 3 are amazing, I think - the AAL album/single might be the pick for me but they're all extremely different so it's a little hard to compare.

Listening to 2017-2019 again this AM. He has a particular talent for crafting coherent albums. Whole thing is very intentional and perfectly sequenced, with intros and outros that are as carefully constructed as the songs themselves.

new Darkside album coming Spring 2021, i like this song:
https://darkside.bandcamp.com/album/liberty-bell

NICE

"Cenizas" is really great, smoky late night club vibes, snuck into my top ten for the year

Damn, what's the sample (or reference since they're presumably replaying it) on Liberty Bell? That two-note guitar part is driving me crazy.

Ahhh -- I was thinking of Tortoise 'Swung from the Gutters'. Maybe just a coincidence?

dude's giving away his records via a Google Drive link:
https://nicolasjaar.net/

All non-commercial use is permitted, this includes any student project and mid and low budget productions (film, theatre, dance, etc). Music producers and composers may (creatively!) sample the music for commercial use. For commercial film and TV send email to inqu✧✧✧@nicolasj✧✧✧.n✧✧. Commercials or marketing content of any kind will not be accepted.

Thanks, Octobeard!

omg Telas is so incredible, I only got around to it this last week

like, what else even sounds like this?

Yeah, he made 3 incredible records last year.

Second Darkside album droppin in July

https://ra.co/news/75117

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRFQ5RGDNrw

delivers

nice

this is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picGLpsZluQ

that's
Ali Sethi & Nicolas Jaar • Yakjehti Mein

it is very good

it is very very good!!!

You know what's very very very good? The new Darkside, which is coming out on Friday.

Man I totally forgot this one was imminent, got a lot of play out of the first one.

Wow that tune with Ali Sethi is fantastic! Have not heard a collaboration like it before, only samples.

Pom OTM. I've had a leaked version playing on repeat for the past week. A big leap forward from Psychic although I guess it has been eight years. There's also a noticeably good flow to this album. Top tier for sure.

yeah this is great, delightful balearic vibes

It's great, hot damn

This is fantastic. I'm absolutely baffled by the "meh" Pitchfork review that seems to think it isn't campy enough and also sounds too much like the first album?

Yes, that criticism seems way off. Also found it off to call Psychic a "normie pursuit" and a "dorm-room staple" .

It's def a different kind of beast. Personally prefer Psychic, but that's because it's v different.

Not sure where else to put this, but a couple years ago I went to MONA down in Hobart, Tasmania, one of the more amazing museum experiences I've ever had. Inside we saw an incredible multi-room installation exhibit that was profoundly memorable and impactful called The Divine Comedy. It was actually the work of Alfredo Jaar. Had no idea until recently. Just an incredibly talented family, and I dare say Alredo's got a better flair for the dramatic than Nico! If Australia ever opens their borders back up, it's worth it to check MONA out even just for this exhibit.

https://mona.net.au/stuff-to-do/the-divine-comedy

I’ve heard good things about that museum and was sad I couldn’t get to Hobart the one time (so far) that I visited Australia. But yeah Alfredo Jaar is pretty renowned artist and is in many collections around the world

Is it time for a Nico albums/eps poll?