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JO PASSED

THEIR PRIME (SUB POP)

JO PASSED - THEIR PRIME 123509
Format:
1 CD
Release:
25.05.2018
Label:
SUB POP
Kat.-Nr.:
123509
Barcode:
0098787124323
Das Schönste, was je jemand zu Jo Hirabayashi, Bandleader von JO PASSED, gesagt hat, ist, dass das Debütalbum seiner Band wie "fucked-up Beatles" klingt.

,Their Prime", den beiden EPs "Up" und ,Out" nachfolgend, klingt tatsächlich wie abgefuckte Beatles.

Es klingt, als hätten John Lennon und Paul McCartney Can und Neu! entdeckt, und auf dem Weg dorthin vielleicht ein wenig Sonic Youth und XTC genossen.

Es demonstriert ein zeitloses Geschick für verträumte Melodien und ungewöhnliche Akkordfolgen.

,Their Prime" ist eine Platte über Identität und über den Verlust von Zeit, der als direkte Folge des urbanen Daseins entsteht.

Kein erschwinglicher Wohnraum zur Miete, keine Zeit neben den Jobs und auch sonst keine realistischen Erwartungen, denen man sich stellen kann.

Und dazu die Angst, die glorreichen Jahre, die schöpferisch fruchtbarste Zeit des Lebens, bereits hinter sich zu haben.

Diese Jahre scheinen verloren durch Kämpfe um Arbeit, Beziehungen, Heimat, Identität und Raum.

Man kann den Frust und jene Angst in den krachenden Laut-Leise-Motiven hören, welche die zwölf Tracks des Albums durchziehen.

Ein Patchwork-Klangteppich, ähnlich dem von Faust ,IV" oder Fugazi ,Red Medicine". ,Their Prime", mit den Singles MDM, Glass und Millennial Trash Blues, wurde im Herbst / Winter 2016/17 in Thor's Palace und KW Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, aufgenommen.

Jo Hirabayashi war seit seiner Jugend Teil der dortigen DIY Musikszene. JO PASSED bestand ursprünglich aus Jo und seinem Freund und Schlagzeuger Mac Lawrie.

Die beiden zogen zusammen nach Montreal und bereisten die östliche Ecke Nordamerikas. Nach Jo's Rückkehr nach Vancouver stieß im Januar 2016 die Multi-Instrumentalistin Bella Bébé zur Band und die Multimediakünstlerin Megan-Magdalena Bourne übernahm in der Folge die Rolle der Bassistin.

Wenn sie nicht über The Zombies, Nirvana oder Johann Sebastian Bach fachsimpeln, realisieren Bella, Mac, Megan und Jo die Live-Erfahrung von ,Their Prime".

[ENG] The nicest thing anyone has ever - ever - said to Jo Hirabayashi, frontman of Jo Passed, is that his band's debut album sounds like "fucked-up Beatles".

Their Prime, the full-length follow-up to Jo Passed's two EPs, Up and Out, does sound like fucked-up Beatles.

It sounds like Lennon and McCartney discovered Can and Neu!, and maybe a little Sonic Youth and XTC along the way.

It demonstrates that timeless knack for dreamy melodies - chord progressions that sound like they were created in a land far, far away.

Lyrically, however, it's imbued with a philosophical longing for answers to questions that have resurfaced for the first time since the explosion of counterculture in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Their Prime is a record about identity and the loss of time that happens as a direct consequence of being in the city with nowhere to rent, no time outside of employment and no realistic expectations to live up to.

It encompasses that fear of being beyond the glory years, the most creatively fruitful period of one's life.

Those years were lost to contemporary struggles for working relationships, home, identity and space.

"It's me owning my worst nightmare," he admits. "A lot of the Jo Passed project has been about confronting fears.

I was afraid to move away from Vancouver to Montreal on my own. Afraid to leave musical relationships I had.

Afraid to bear the full responsibility of a project. Being open about those fears is a good way of dealing with them.

You end up at this point where you hit 30 and you're like, 'Oh what happened? Am I done? Did I not activate my main creative energy?' It's a ridiculous idea but 30 feels a little like 1000 in rock n roll terms." You can hear the frustrations and the jitters in the crashing loud-and-quiet motifs throughout the album's twelve tracks, which offer up a patchwork quilt of sound, similar to Faust's IV or Fugazi's Red Medicine.

Jo Passed originally consisted of Jo and his friend and drummer Mac Lawrie. The two moved to Montreal together, and toured the far-right corner of North America.

After Jo's return to Vancouver, multi-instrumentalist Bella Bébé joined the band in January of 2016, and multimedia artist Megan-Magdalena Bourne joined on bass, after working on a video for the song "Rage" (from Jo Passed's Out EP).

Having worked with Bella, Mac, and Megan to create the live experience of Their Prime, it's touring and hearing people's reactions to the album that are at the forefront of Jo's mind.

"It's like I've put all my negativity into a place and now I'm lighting it on fire as a way of releasing it.

by putting it out on Sub Pop, ha!" Indeed, sometimes you have to banish the bad vibes to get to the great ones.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. LEFT
  • 1.2. MDM
  • 1.3. GLASS
  • 1.4. UNDEMO
  • 1.5. FACETOOK
  • 1.6. REPAIR
  • 1.7. R.IP.
  • 1.8. MILLENNIAL TRASH BLUES
  • 1.9. YOU, PRIME
  • 1.10. SOLD
  • 1.11. ANOTHER NOWHERE
  • 1.12. PLACES PLEASE