Jaga Jazzist
If you've been to scissorkick in the past, you probably know that Norway's Jaga Jazzist is one of our absolute favorite bands currently churning out the unclassifiable tunes. So it is with great pleasure that today's post is a track from their upcoming record What We Must to be released on Ninja Tune later this season. What will surely be regarded as a perfectly timed Spring release, the new album features seven epic tracks crossing countless genres but what will stick out most noticeably to fans is the heavy presence of guitars. Some stretches sound as if Tortoise and My Bloody Valentine copulated and birthed a new form of hyphenated monster like post-prog-shoegazer-rock or fusion-jazz-ambient-rock. Also, fans will love the additional presence of vocals, especially in the haunting, elegiac "Swedenborgske Rom" which includes the same 10-member harmony that floored me when the Jagas played live in NYC last year. Since this is a much anticipated release (and since Ninja Tune came down on me for posting their artists in the past) it will only be up for a few days, so get this now and please enjoy!
Purchase Jaga Jazzist records and learn more about the band. And make sure to head on over to one of our favorite blogs, The Suburbs Are Killing Us for a couple of Jaga-related nuggets from the Horntveth Brothers side project The National Bank.
Jaga Jazzist :: "Stardust Hotel"
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