Jay Som is again along with her first new album in six years. Belong is out October 10 by way of Polyvinyl. For the follow-up to 2019’s Anak Ko, Melina Duterte tapped Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Mini Bushes’ Lexi Vega, and Jimmy Eat World’s Jim Adkins to contribute visitor vocal turns.
Immediately, Duterte has shared two songs from the album: the Adkins-featuring “Float” and “A Million Reasons Why.” Watch the Nina Ljeti–directed music video for “Float,” which pays homage to Jimmy Eat World’s timeless “The Center” clip, under. Hear “A Million Causes Why” under, too.
“This tune is about desperately making an attempt to carry on to previous variations of your self for self preservation,” Duterte stated of “Float” in a press assertion. “The concern of the unknown is so overwhelming that typically the most effective resolution is to sit down with it as a substitute of preventing or working from it.”
For the reason that launch of Anak Ko, Duterte has collaborated with Troye Sivan, Anjimile, and, as Bachelor, Palehound’s El Kempner. She additionally labored as a producer and engineer on Boygenius’ The Record and Lucy Dacus’ Forever Is a Feeling and contributed to the soundtrack for Jane Schoenbrun’s movie I Saw the TV Glow.
After supporting Dacus on tour this summer time, Duterte will kick off her personal run of headlining dates throughout Europe, North America and the UK, together with stops at Pitchfork Music Festival Paris and Pitchfork Music Festival London. Discover all of Jay Som’s upcoming reveals under.
Examine Jay Som’s 2017 album, Everybody Works, at No. 165 in “The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s.”
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Belong:
01 Playing cards on the Desk
02 Float [ft. Jim Adkins]
03 What You Want
04 Appointments
05 Drop A
06 Previous Lives [ft. Hayley Williams]
07 D.H.
08 On line casino Stars
09 Meander/Sprouting Wings
10 A Million Causes Why
11 Need It All
