JAM CITY | ジャム・シティ サウス・ロンドンで活躍するプロデューサー、ジャック・レイサムによるソロ・プロジェクト。ロンドンのアンダーグラウンド・シーンで産声を上げ、音楽はもちろんファッション・シーンからも注目を集める若手クリエイター集団【NIGHT SLUGS】所属。2012年にその【NIGHT SLUGS】よりリリースされたデビュー・アルバム『Classical Curves』が、クラブ周辺だけでなくインディ・ロック・ファンからも高く評価され、【NIGHT SLUGS】の首領であるボク・ボク、かつてルームメイトだったカインドネス、FKAツイッグスら、時代の寵児たちもその才能を絶賛する。2015年、3年ぶり、2作目となるアルバム『DREAM A GARDEN』のリリースを発表
Known as Jam City,
Jack Latham is a producer from South London, England
whose inspirations include Chicago house, Detroit techno, and London grime, as well as early-'80s electro and the sharp, pristine sounds of mid- to late-'80s R&B.
Signed to Night Slugs, the label run by like-minded artists Bok Bok and L-Vis 1990,
Latham began with the EPs Magic Drops (2010) and Waterworx (2011), then assembled an album, Classical Curves (2012).
All three releases were starkly constructed and careened from heavy rhythms to beatless atmospheres.
For Dream a Garden (2015), Latham scuffed up his sound, bathed it in reverb, and provided emotive -- but partially buried -- vocals to express his dissatisfaction with the effects of capitalism.
In stark contrast to debut 'Classical Curves', gone is the sheet-metal gleam of hyper-modernism in favour of a sultry, muggy stew of blue-eyed soul obscured by some wonderfully damaged production. As you'd expect from Jack Latham, the production is impeccable. At first it can seem overly dense, but with repeat listens the pop under-current becomes more pronounced as does the perfect synergy between it and the more abrasive, obscuring electronics.
My highlights come in the fuggy dream-pop vocalisations of 'Today', 'Unhappy' and 'Crisis' but really, there isn't a weak track and the instrumental passages serve as neat segues and remain enjoyable in their own rights. The vocals are often treated and kept back in the mix so are tantalisingly out-of-reach and elliptical, not openly spilling out their meaning. In itself this is ironic as the lyric sheet shows a strong socio-political message addressing consumerism, relationships and general functioning in the modern world.
At the moment, this is my go-to LP for making everything alright with the world: by turns dreamy, funky and a little demanding, it creates a beautiful, fuzzy daydream to lose yourself in.
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