It goes without saying that the fall mixtape is my favorite of the year. I've spent the last two weeks narrowing this down to what hopefully will be as rad to hear on your end as it is each time I listen through it on mine. Getting the closest friends, setting your destination for the [...]
BLKKATHY 's sound is trendy - think pulse-driven dance tracks, reverb, and distant sounding women singing about just how much they don't care. It's a trend for a reason, but without going into the semantics as to why, allow me to introduce you a band that can take these elements and do them all well. Kate Faust, a.k.a. BLKKATHY , has all the lyrical defiance and self-evisceration that will be familiar to any fans of jj , but matches it with a total dedication to New York's disco electronica influence. Aloof, [...]
Sporadic is one word you could use to describe the release patterns of Swedish indie-pop duo jj , dropping whatever they want to whenever they want to drop it, whether it's an album, a new song, a video, or a free EP as is the case here. Back in April they dropped their latest single "Beautiful Life" and its b-side "Burn" , and now they're giving away a new four-song, 15-minute-long EP for free via their label Sincerely Yours, which can be [...]
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" Beautiful Life " fue el hermoso track que este duo sueco de nombre jj nos presento hace aproximadamente un mes como parte de su nuevo release a traves de Secretly Canadian y si, esto tambien es tan solo un pequeño avance de lo que estaremos encontrando dentro de su proximo album de larga duracion el cual se espera que salga durante la segunda parte del año pero como ya les he comentado en algunas ocasiones: hay dias en los que le pierdo la pista a jj debido a que hay instantes en [...]
Listen to jj 's new song "Burn" below, taken from their latest single "Beautiful Life" . At the start of April, Swedish Electronic-Pop duo jj dropped a new track called "Beautiful Life" , the title track from their new single featuring "Burn" as the b-side, and was released on iTunes May 8th. Much like "Beautiful Life" with its atmospheric ethereal Indie-Pop brilliance, "Burn" follows in the same vein but tones [...]
Watch the video for "Beautiful Life" , the A-side to jj 's new single " jj nº43 . A couple of weeks ago we gave you a listen to jj 's newest song, "Beautiful Life" , which had all the great ethereal qualities we've come to expect from the elusive Swedish duo. Now the song has a video, directed by Patricia Paulsson , which features some clips of very summery images that match the title and feel of the song really nicely. Watch [...]
Wonderful Swedish dream pop duo jj ’s newest track, ‘jj n° 4’, colloquially known as ‘Beautiful Life’ is just really lovely. It’s quiet and reassuring and feels like waves washing over you. And not in an “AAH! I’m drowning!” kind of way- in a pleasant, the “water is giving me a hug” kind of way. The sweet vocals of Elin Kastlander , tell you that she’s “so in this bitch…” and that “he’ll never get over me.” I think this means that maybe she’s a little bit bitter about a dissolved relationship, [...]
jj make their triumphant return with the release of "Beautiful Life", yet another beautifully composed song from the Swedish duo. And the first line? It goes something like this: "I'm so in this b*tch, see me glow in this b*tch, blowing dro in this b*tch, doing blow in this b*tch." Classic. This new song will appear on their forthcoming single jj n° 4 alongside another new song entitled "Burn". Starting May 8th, you'll be able to purchase the single from Secretly Canadian and Sincerely Yours either as a 73 record or as a digital recording. [...]
Listen to and download jj 's new song "Beautiful Life" below. Swedish label Sincerely Yours (along with Secretly Canadian) will release a new jj single on May 8th called "jj nº43 and featuring this brand new track along with another newbie "Burn" . It's the first new music from them since they dropped "We Can't Stop" , their track with Ne-Yo last summer. Lead track "Beautiful Life" has the signature laid back, ethereal, grandiose jj sound that's [...]
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Uhhhh ya ha pasado un largo rato desde que escuchamos algo nuevo de este duo sueco de nombre jj el cual pese a que ya ha sacado bastante material y sabemos a la perfeccion como luce cada uno de ellos, a decir verdad es uno de esos proyectos que aun con todo esto que les digo pareciera ser un verdadero mito y si, segun se decia el año pasado estarian editando su tercer album de estudio e incluso nos habian soltado algun par de tracks bastante buenos (y muy diferentes entre si) pero al final me parece que [...]
![[Video] – jj – “VI”](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3949193_lg.jpg)
Tweet Watch the new video for jj 's song "VI" below, and try not to get creeped out by that intro. It creeped the hell outta me that's for sure. Connect with JJ – Facebook | Website | Last.fm
Tweet Never ones to shy away from convention, ceo and jj have teamed up to cover one of Blondie's biggest hits, even though it's "Maria", a track they released in 1999 as part of their reunion. The track wasn't bad, but it was pretty damn successful and was almost inescapable back then, however as another little twist to the cover it's also an homage to the Tennis star Maria Sharapova. The track's almost unrecognisable though, having been hollowed out and [...]
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Tweet Curiosity killed the cat and never being one to shy away from death-defying acts, I'm curious as hell as to why this new jj track featuring Ne-Yo is censored. Anybody know? It's whatevs. Released as the penultimate single on Adult Swim's Singles Series Ne-Yo sent this track to Adult Swim who subsequently sent it along to jj who obviously had to add some magic to it. It kinda reminds me of something from Young Galaxy 's latest album [...]
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Tweet This is 100% true: at university, I was officially designated a Sexy Voiced Person. What this meant was that I got to do the voice-over for the student radio station idents. Since most of you probably never heard those, I hope you'll humour me and imagine, for the rest of the post, that I sound like a cross between Sean Connery and the Old Spice guy. I may not actually sound like that. Okay, with that piece of house-keeping out of the way, [...]
![[Listen/Download] – New Song By jj – “Celebris”](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3544833_lg.jpg)
Tweet New jj has been a long time coming, especially if you're a die hard fan that is, but in the run-up to their new album "jj nº43 which was apparently supposed to have come out last week but didn't, and now I hear people saying August, this is the first taste of said new music. Where'd it come from? they posted the WAV file on their blog and thanks to the observant The Road Goes Ever On , it's now here for [...]
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Tweet This post is a "QuickPick". QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that's sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it's so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I "star" it in Gmail and then go back and listen to it a day later. If it's still as good as it [...]
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