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| Pitchfork |
 The son of a composer father and a French-speaking Swiss mother, Jeremy Jay recently relocated from Los Angeles to London. On third K album Splash, though, the real move is from Jay's usual Land of Nod to somewhere near what used to be called Alternative Nation. This is an elegant place, as Jay envisions it, full of yearning and wonder, but at times it can also come to resemble an empty stage set.Splash represents only the latest sonic evolution from one of the recent pop underground's more intriguing stylists. After sleepwalking through a cinematic cityscape soundtracked by buoyant 50s doowop and brittle 80s indie on 2008's A Place Where We Could Go, Jay added John Hughes synth romance and swaying winter-formal rhythms on last year's Slow Dance. With Splash, Jay's shift toward the sloppy guitars and meaty chord progressions from MTV's "120 Minutes" heyday is, at least on its surface, no less masterful. His voice remains adrift between the airiness of former tourmates Deerhunter's Bradford Cox and the hiccupy dramatics of Morrissey, while jangling or distorted guitar melodies bound forward with a new sense of purpose, occasionally replaced by piano or streaked with feedback. The drums gallop now, rather than canter; the rollicking title track is perhaps the most urgent song in Jay's small, confident catalog. "Walking down the street at night with your headphones," he whispers at the end of tantalizingly brief "Someday Somewhere", seeming to describe the ideal listening conditions....full text |
| Austintownhall |
| 2010 is going to be a busy year for Jeremy Jay. His first album of the year, Splash, is just being released, while there is another album slated for release later in the year, not to mention his work on the movie Belle Epine. Will all the work distract his natural knack for writing amazingly introspective pop numbers? By the sounds of this album, Jeremy is still going strong, and he shows no signs of slowing down. JJ begins the album with “As You Look Over the City,” which one can assume is his own personal narrative about his recent move to London, demonstrating his ability to approach the subject matter from third-person. His guitar never seems over-bearing, and the accompaniment by his band always seems perfectly fitting to his deep croon. While many will accuse Jeremy of staying in the same vein as his last two albums, there are definitely differences. Point of evidence one: “It Happened Before Our Time.” This is the first time he’s really messing with his vocal delivery, changing the pitch and the tone, both going a long way to evoke the mood of the song. When his voice lightly echos in the background of the song, you can tell that he’s really pushing the boundaries of what he can do. Then you have the second piece of evidence, ” The Dream Diary Kids,” a song which is largely dominated by a synthesizer. His vocals carry the song, and interestingly enough, you don’t actually miss that trademark guitar sound he’s been using since he first came out....full text |
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