Teedubyabee
it seems massively unfair that these 10 stunning tracks belong to one person, let alone one album. feels like I'm cheating on Dream A Garden with this absolute beauty.
Favorite track: Cruel Joke.
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Pillowland on high-bias cassette tape with full colour printed O-card packaging.
All artwork by Jakob Haglof.
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Hand-drawn illustration by Jakob Haglof, screenprinted on high-quality, heavyweight Stanley/Stella t-shirt stock.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Hand-drawn illustration by Jakob Haglof, screenprinted on high-quality, heavyweight Stanley/Stella t-shirt stock.
Includes unlimited streaming of Pillowland
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 98 days
Purchasable with gift card
£20GBPor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
***PRE-ORDER - SHIPS JAN 2021***
Hand-drawn illustration by Jakob Haglof, screenprinted on high-quality, heavyweight Stanley/Stella t-shirt stock. Both black & white shirts are included in this package.
Includes unlimited streaming of Pillowland
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
***PRE-ORDER - SHIPS FEB 2021***
Special Pillowland Everything Bundle!
Includes:
1 x Pillowland Vinyl (Black)
1 x Pillowland Cassette
1 x Pillowland Digital Release
1 x Poster
2 x T Shirts (Black & White)
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After a tumultuous 5-year absence, Jam City returns with his long awaited third full length album, Pillowland.
Written under the influence of living in America, Pillowland lounges spreadeagle between the plaintive, bit-crushed psychedelia of Dream A Garden, and the bass-heavy, slow motion productions of the beloved Earthly mixtapes, bringing you 10 scorch’d, carnival-esque hallucinations of Pop-Rock Fantasy that make up his strongest work to date.
Channeling a period of doubt, pain, confusion and change in the artists personal life, Pillowland seeks refuge in the sugar-sweet amphetamine rush of the Pop dreamscape. It explores those starry fantasies which are promised but never fulfilled; the glistening, celluloid fantasies of a life filled with glamour, meaning and purpose that hover permanently on our ever-shrinking horizon. Desire itself is ingested like an illicit substance, then excavated with a perverse glee and a knowing sensitivity that mark a huge leap forward for the artist.
From the sunny, intoxicating thrills of Sweetjoy to the narcotic, 12-string dream-pop of Cartwheel, the gaudy, crunching Future-Glam of They Eat The Young, to the heart-felt, dopamine-depleted I Don’t Wanna Dream About it Anymore, Jam City joyfully drowns in sounds somewhere between 1972 and 2020, gleefully playing with genre conventions like a child in a makeup box. Playing the part of the crooning, fake-Rock dreamer, he gazes over the rainbow but is barely able to look outside the window. Pretty, pleading melodies ache for some un-nameable fix to smother that awful reality: that the dream is truly dead. But these songs come not so much from the squandered expectations of generations, but rather a deep, gut-level belief in something more than this life...
Back in the smoggy metropolis, far from Pillowlands golden gates, the spectral post-2008 shopping center that haunted Classical Curves makes its return:“ I was back in my old haunt, escaping an unseasonably hot day in there, and I passed an old man wearing a Brian Jones T-shirt and looked sad. Over the tannoy Chicago’s ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ echo’d and it moved me close to tears. I had never heard a dream so convincing, and so out of reach”.
As the sweeping, Giallo-drenched synth strings of Cherry play out the end credits, Pillowland finally finds it’s bitter-sweet salvation; the gates of the palace swing open, and you are invited finally step inside. The cool air-conditioning licks your face. Doomed to spend eternity behind the gates, you find yourself quarantined in Heaven itself, forever.
credits
released November 13, 2020
Written & Produced by Jam City
Mixed by Liam Howe and Jam City
Mastered by Precise
All artwork by Jakob Haglof
All photography by Sylwia Wozniak
