JOOKABOX and YOURSELF AND THE AIR
JOOKABOX
"Listening to Jookabox is like entering a scene in Trainspotting or SLC Punk, when the madness becomes so overwhelming, dialogue can no longer handle the transmission of the details and must give way to the music. " The Silver Tongue
"Since we didn't ever really know what a "Grampall" was, we're glad Jookabox decided to forgo the forename on new album Dead Zone Boys. He didn't, however, lose the frenetic junk drum circles and doubled zombie falsettos that made the previous two long players as fun as shooting roman candles out of sedan windows." RCRD LBL
"Prepare to have your head blown clean off by an exploding concrete ball of ferocious bass drums and guitars that’ll shock your spine with their intense therapy. Jookabox’s new album is a kaleidoscopic martyr; a hell-raising alert signalling the end of human existence. David Adamson’s third album, released by Joyful Noise in tandem with Asthmatic Kitty Records throws the doors wide open, tearing away any remnants of old-blues and psychedelic folk left over from his two previous albums (2007’s Scientific Cricket and 2008’s Ropechain) and cuddles together multiple genres of music that normally sit worlds apart. Hip-hop beats align with glam rock vocals (’Phantom Don’t Go’, ‘East Side Bangs/ East Side Fade’); trashy RnB vocal effects feed across urban country hymns (’Glyphin’ Out’, ‘F.I.T.F. 1?); Gospel singers join in chorus with howling sirens (’Don’t Go Phantom’) and folk guitars side with rockabilly rhythms (’You Cried Me’). It’s a colourful mess, but it’s also one of the most beautiful musical fusions of recent time. (9 out of 10)" Einstein Music Journal
"Indiana natives Jookabox launch a third full-length album that is a study in the primordial stew of avant garde music effortlessly blending a hodgepodge of intriguing sounds. Get your mind numbed with their genre bending and stirring mix-o-logy." Smother
"the project's third album is his best and most complete so far" My Old Kentucky Blog
YOURSELF AND THE AIR
Hailing from Chicago's lower west side, Yourself And The Air combine Midwest atmospherics with the sweeping sprawl of a skyward city built on electricity and steel. Take flight over Lake Michigan and this is your soundtrack. Songs to think to. Songs to dream to. At one moment the infinitesimal line between water and sky, the next the buzzing neons of the boulevard at night, escaping crowded bars for desolate alleys — you and a memory, Yourself And The Air.
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Yourself And The Air are three friends who've toured a majority of the U.S. and parts of Canada crammed in a van, lugging their own gear, sleeping outside, crashing on fans' floors, cooking pasta for pals, hopping hotel fences to swim in pools, drawing on the walls of bathroom stalls. They've played with the likes of Chairlift, El Perro Del Mar, Peter Bjorn And John and Portugal. The Man, among other artists. And with three EPs under their belt in as many years (¡Hola Mi Cielo! [2006], Cold Outside Brings Heavy Thoughts To Think [2007], Friend Of All Breeds [2008]), Yourself And The Air will release Who's Who In The Zoo on Lujo Records in the spring of 2011 — their first for a label — which they performed and recorded themselves in one month after thousands of miles of touring took them through 42 American states. Erick Crosby, Jeff Papendorf and Drew Rasmussen holed up in their empty Chicago house, using the comfort and space of their own home as a studio and relying on the very same instruments they grew up with to cut the seven tracks that comprise the 32-minute EP.
Who's Who In The Zoo finds the band with a renewed sense of confidence while still capturing the effervescent swirl listeners know and love them for — ambient trails followed by blasts of ozone, digging in and out of different aural pleasure centers in effortless cadences. Melodies shimmer like mirages, haunt like ghosts. Reverb guitar notes hang and transfix. Keys float loosely over firmly rooted drums. With Who's Who In The Zoo, Yourself And The Air have refined their palette and honed their sound, making music that is immediately inviting and brings to mind the spectral state between consciousness and slumber.
