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| Pitchfork |
 From the moment Jeremy Jay began recording under his own name, his vision was fully realized: He wanted to write about dreams. In 2007, he released Dreamland, a debut composed of (dreamy!) instrumental pop meant to accompany a film he had yet to shoot. One year later, he released the doo-wop tinted A Place Where We Could Go, his first full-length for K Records and the first to feature his own vocals. That album's first words? "Night, night." Since then, he's dressed up his louche stripe of indie-pop in a variety of sonic getups, stripping down to sleek'n'minimal synth essentials for 2009's Slow Dance, donning a ragged alt-rock cape for the guitar crunch of 2010's Splash, and now a chilly combination of the two for Dream Diary, his latest. What glues them all together is his unwavering fascination with the dream state, both as a lyrical pipeline and method of delivery. Because as he presents himself here, now more than ever, Jeremy Jay sounds as though he works in silk pajamas.
That's not a comment on Jay's work ethic or his sartorial charms but rather the smooth and easy sensibility with which he lays everything down to tape. His longest full-length by a curious distance, Dream Diary maintains a nocturnal feel throughout. Additionally, it appears to be the purest distillation of that which Jay set out to do on Day One: Offer up images of last night at their most skeletal and straightforward. This calls for bare-bones chordcraft and sonics, a pursuit Jay does well to provide. As "Caught in a Whirl" threads slinky bass to eerie synths to ultra clean guitar, Jay croons, "You met me at the store with your rainbow hair/ And we drove, windows down, past the sullen fog/ Breathing in the ocean air that night/ We walked down the steps, yeah, we didn't look back." Just as he does moments later in the post-punk play-by-play of "By the Rivers Edge" and the spy guitar-bolstered snap of "Secret Sounds", Jay is nar rating. Word for word, much of Dream Diary's lyric sheet plays exactly like its title would have you believe: as though it were lifted from a book he keeps next to his bed and fills with traces of whatever he can remember seeing in his sleep....full text |
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| Brooklynrocks |
| On Jeremy Jay’s "Dream Diary" the sway of the heart is in overdrive with the freedom of youth and bright horizons (especially at night); oh, and don’t forget love. These are the major themes of "Dream Diary". Recorded with the powerful yet lithe trio of Jeremy, guitar and keyboards, Derek playing electric bass guitar, and Michael on drums, they kept the room alive at Stagg Street Studios in Los Angeles, Ca. with the majestic pop perfection that unfolds as "Dream Diary" draws you into its spell. Synth driven, and a bit moodier than his past work, this album will take you by the hand and walk with you towards a beautiful sunset, and then walk right past it....full text |
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| Tinymixtapes |
| Jeremy Jay's new album, Dream Diary, is due next Tuesday, April 12, on K Records. In a wise move, Jay is currently offering the full album as a stream. According to TMT's Rowan Savage (whose review of the album will be up shortly), "Jay has the fragility, beauty and occasional majesty of any of the Sarah Records roster, without the frustratingly cultivated naiveté or humorlessness." Agreed....full text |
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