Jay Som - Everybody Works (2017) [FLAC]

  Genre: Rock
  Styles: Indie, Singer/Songwriter
  Source: WEB
  Codec: FLAC
  Bit rate: ~ 800 kbps
  Bit depth: 16
  Sample rate: 44.1 kHz

  01 Lipstick Stains
  02 The Bus Song
  03 Remain
  04 1 Billion Dogs
  05 One More Time, Please
  06 Baybee
  07 (BedHead)
  08 Take It
  09 Everybody Works
  10 For Light

  Melina Duterte, who operates under the moniker Jay Som, has experienced a sharp upward trajectory since she drunkenly dropped her debut collection via Bandcamp. Whereas Turn Into was a hastily released random selection of nine songs that were effectively demos (albeit ones that displayed a surprising level of polish and promise given their lo-fi inception), Everybody Works is more like her debut proper. The record's title refers to Duterte's experience of familial cynicism toward her career choice.  The album opens with the delightfully dreamy "Lipstick Stains," which suggests a brighter sound than the D.I.Y. production and layered distortion her first collection afforded.  The same can be said of the single "Baybee"; cutesy title aside, its hazily intoxicating chorus is yet another example of how she has pulled her songwriting into sharper focus. The leaps she has made with this recording make the fact that it was recorded in her bedroom and, bar the mastering, is entirely her own work all the more surprising given the level of nuanced detail on show.  Given what a fine record she has produced here, it's very likely just the beginning for this bright new talent whose youthful angst is contradicted by the confidence present in her compositions