Jay Som – Everybody Works LP orange vinyl

On her first proper album as Jay Som, Melina Duterte, 22, solidifies her rep as a self-made force of sonic splendor and emotional might. If last year's aptly named Turn Into compilation showcased a fuzz-loving artist in flux—chronicling her mission to master bedroom recording—then the rising Oakland star's latest, Everybody Works, is the LP equivalent of mission accomplished.

Duterte is as DIY as ever—writing, recording, playing, and producing every sound beyond a few backing vocals—but she takes us places we never could have imagined, wedding lo-fi rock to hi-fi home orchestration, and weaving evocative autobiographical poetry into energetic punk, electrified folk, and dreamy alt-funk.

Everybody Works is the confident, multi-faceted work of an artist with something real and true to tell the world. - Consequence of Sound

A nice dose of the kind of sensitive-sounding, lyrically honest indie rock that made early Death Cab and The Execution of All Things-era Rilo Kiley so addictive. - BrooklynVegan

While Jay Som returns to the fuzzed-out guitars and yearning pop that has defined her earlier work, these new songs introduce an ever-expanding palette — shimmering and spacious synth-pop, glossy R&B and slinky, polyrhythmic funk. - NPR

Label: Polyvinyl Record Company – PRC-329
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Orange, 180g
Country: US
Released: Mar 10, 2017
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Indie Rock

Tracklist

A1 Lipstick Stains
A2 The Bus Song
A3 Remain
A4 1 Billion Dogs
A5 One More Time, Please
A6 Baybee
B1 (BedHead)
B2 Take It
B3 Everybody Works
B4 For Light