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New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2021 1:54 pm
by Tyler
Jay has a new solo record coming out March 5th (Digital only, vinyl a few months later)!
Preorders and the first single are up on Bandcamp:
I did a little but of work on this project, which involved giving the album many, many listens, and it really holds up.
If you liked Mess of Happiness, you're going to REALLY like this.
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:25 am
by RolanK
Sounds great that tune!
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 2:22 pm
by cortez the killer
Yeah, that song is really good.
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2021 6:14 pm
by Tyler
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 10:04 am
by schlanky
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 12:33 pm
by beantownbubba
Excellent stuff from Jay.
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:19 pm
by 305 Engine
Im guessing Jay doesnt contribute any songwriting to DBT because he saves it for his solo work?
Thats a real shame.
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:08 pm
by Tyler
Really his solo stuff is so different from DBT though,
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:01 pm
by glennrwordman
Any song whose video features that much fur baby action is a winner in my book.
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:10 am
by Tyler
And the album is out on Bandcamp, or your favorite streaming service!
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:31 pm
by Jack Flash
Listening now and loving it.
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 5:28 pm
by RolanK
Jack Flash wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:31 pm
Listening now and loving it.
It is great!
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 6:28 pm
by Tyler
Also for the musicians out there, there is a songbook, with, well, all the songs on it.
I did some of the transcriptions and all of the engraving, formatting, layout etc.
https://jaygonzalez.bandcamp.com/merch/ ... e-songbook
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 7:44 pm
by schlanky
Got in a couple of listens in today at work. I'm digging it.
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 9:02 pm
by schlanky
I went back to YouTube to see the happy pets video for Sunspot and found this:
https://youtu.be/AYpo1xQ-wQY
And this:
https://youtu.be/muNSUV0OTyY
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 4:54 pm
by RolanK
Deep Sea Diver is such a great song.
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:22 pm
by Tyler
Yeah it is. That was one of the first ones I transcribed for the book so I really spent a lot of quality time with.
The glam rock outro is my favorite bit of the record.
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:34 am
by RolanK
Tyler wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:22 pm
Yeah it is. That was one of the first ones I transcribed for the book so I really spent a lot of quality time with.
The glam rock outro is my favorite bit of the record.
Nice! Kudos on that songbook btw. Great job!
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2021 5:22 am
by chuckrh
Finally came out of the Rust Bucket long enough to listen to this. Pretty good. Way poppier than I was expecting which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Re: New Jay solo record - Back To The Hive - 3/5/21
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 2:16 pm
by glennrwordman
I mentioned this to Uncle Rickey yesterday, but after a few "just listening" listens, I kinda went into "analyze" mode yesterday, and what impresses me so much about the record, is that while you CAN simply experience it as suface-y pop brilliance, which is wonderful in and of itself, there is so much care taken in the little variations, surprises, melodic and arrangement left-turns, that the record becomes something more in addition to its obvious and manifold pop charms.
It's smart, sweet, open-hearted, and superbly crafted in every second of its 28 minutes.