Hard to believe #METBAW is already 15 years old.
To commemorate that wee, insignificant detail, we teamed up with HERMIT ltd. for this also wee collection of unisex shirts related to the album (fot that tiny collection, please scroll further down... More to the point, each shirt comes with a digital downloadable version of #METBAW...)
However, some albums are designed to be shared. Blasted from stereo speakers to build a sense of community. Others long for isolation. A connection between artist and listener. A direct conversation best enjoyed with headphones to fully consume you.
JK’s first studio solo album released in the latter half of 2010 is definitely a headphone record. Its sonics are designed to be enjoyed in darkened rooms, eyes shut and the otherworldly ethereal quality of the music moves inside that space.
With !JP disbanding in 2009, Jean took some time to regroup and rediscover where he wanted to go next.
Dark, ominous, isolating and dense, #METBAW makes no apologies or tries to soften its bleak spikey moments or its harsh crisp beats that crackle and cackle beneath Jean’s borderline obtuse vocals, which ache one moment and bristle the next.
But it’s all by design. An experiment with focus.
From the unnerving electronic unwinding of the multilayered “Are You Man Enough To Be A Woman?” that became an instant electronica classic with its multiple remixes to the final sustained heavy breathing, robotic mania lyric of closer “The Energy Is Drifting At This Stupid Party,” the album doesn’t let up.
To commemorate that wee, insignificant detail, we teamed up with HERMIT ltd. for this also wee collection of unisex shirts related to the album (fot that tiny collection, please scroll further down... More to the point, each shirt comes with a digital downloadable version of #METBAW...)
However, some albums are designed to be shared. Blasted from stereo speakers to build a sense of community. Others long for isolation. A connection between artist and listener. A direct conversation best enjoyed with headphones to fully consume you.
JK’s first studio solo album released in the latter half of 2010 is definitely a headphone record. Its sonics are designed to be enjoyed in darkened rooms, eyes shut and the otherworldly ethereal quality of the music moves inside that space.
With !JP disbanding in 2009, Jean took some time to regroup and rediscover where he wanted to go next.
Dark, ominous, isolating and dense, #METBAW makes no apologies or tries to soften its bleak spikey moments or its harsh crisp beats that crackle and cackle beneath Jean’s borderline obtuse vocals, which ache one moment and bristle the next.
But it’s all by design. An experiment with focus.
From the unnerving electronic unwinding of the multilayered “Are You Man Enough To Be A Woman?” that became an instant electronica classic with its multiple remixes to the final sustained heavy breathing, robotic mania lyric of closer “The Energy Is Drifting At This Stupid Party,” the album doesn’t let up.