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Pillowland
Artist
Jam City
ReleaseProduct
Pillowland
Label
Earthly Records
Catalogue Number
CAT431505
Release Date
November 13, 2020

Instant MP3 download with all Vinyl pre-orders.

Genres

After a long absence (not without a string of mysterious one-offs on Night Slugs) Jack Latham aka Jam City returns with his first full-length LP in five years. The sadboy synth anguish of 2015’s Dream A Garden is still alive and kicking, but Pillowland bestows upon Latham’s uniquely irreverent style a late-night drive time radio slot; a one-album set of super-powered hyperpop wavelengths easily imagined as pumping through an old car stereo, the battered 1980s transmitter stuck between grizzled classic rock, funky quiet storm and stray city pop oldies — and more than a few static screeches in-between.

Very much in due appreciation of dadrock's best and brightest, the opening title track opens with a slow-motion synth swagger and an unapologetically soaring guitar riff, which draws to an industrial halt with the rhythm of ‘Sweetjoy’, one of Pillowland’s many earworm songs carried by Latham’s popping metallic autotuned vocal — another instrument among many within the thick, maximalist haze. There’s a hint of French synthwave throughout the likes of ‘Cruel Joke’ and ‘I Don’t Wanna Dream About It Anymore’, their sparking electronics rubbing up against the clatter of reverb-drenched live drums.

Jam City nimbly dodges any single genre with Pillowland, opting for a crushingly catchy LP steeped in neon-coloured crepuscular atmospherics.

Pre-order Information

We endeavour to ensure pre-orders reach you on the official release date. The date indicated above is the nearest possible delivery date according to the distributor, and is therefore liable to change at any time in accordance with changes made by the distributor.

Digital Track List

  1. 1 Pillowland 2:28 Buy

    Pillowland

  2. 2 Sweetjoy 2:49 Buy

    Sweetjoy

  3. 3 Cartwheel 3:38 Buy

    Cartwheel

  4. 4 Actor 2:00 Buy

    Actor

  5. 5 They Eat The Young 2:29 Buy

    They Eat The Young

  6. 6 Baby Desert Nobody 1:31 Buy

    Baby Desert Nobody

  7. 7 Climb Back Down 3:26 Buy

    Climb Back Down

  8. 8 Cruel Joke 4:49 Buy

    Cruel Joke

  9. 9 I Don’t Wanna Dream About It Anymore 5:04 Buy

    I Don’t Wanna Dream About It Anymore

  10. 10 Cherry 4:05 Buy

    Cherry

Jam City

Electronic and Electronica

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