Jay Som is again together with her first new album in six years. Belong is out October 10 through Polyvinyl. For the follow-up to 2019’s Anak Ko, Melina Duterte tapped Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Mini Bushes’ Lexi Vega, and Jimmy Eat World’s Jim Adkins to contribute visitor vocal turns.
Right now, Duterte has shared two songs from the album: the Adkins-featuring “Float” and “A Million Causes Why.” Watch the Nina Ljeti–directed music video for “Float,” which pays homage to Jimmy Eat World’s timeless “The Center” clip, beneath. Hear “A Million Causes Why” beneath, too.
“This music is about desperately making an attempt to carry on to previous variations of your self for self preservation,” Duterte stated of “Float” in a press assertion. “The concern of the unknown is so overwhelming that typically the perfect answer is to sit down with it as an alternative of preventing or working from it.”
Because the launch of Anak Ko, Duterte has collaborated with Troye Sivan, Anjimile, and, as Bachelor, Palehound’s El Kempner. She additionally labored as a producer and engineer on Boygenius’ The Document and Lucy Dacus’ Ceaselessly Is a Feeling and contributed to the soundtrack for Jane Schoenbrun’s movie I Noticed the TV Glow.
After supporting Dacus on tour this summer time, Duterte will kick off her personal run of headlining dates throughout Europe, North America and the UK, together with stops at Pitchfork Music Pageant Paris and Pitchfork Music Pageant London. Discover all of Jay Som’s upcoming reveals beneath.
Examine Jay Som’s 2017 album, Everyone Works, at No. 165 in “The 200 Finest Albums of the 2010s.”
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Belong:
01 Playing cards on the Desk
02 Float [ft. Jim Adkins]
03 What You Want
04 Appointments
05 Drop A
06 Previous Lives [ft. Hayley Williams]
07 D.H.
08 On line casino Stars
09 Meander/Sprouting Wings
10 A Million Causes Why
11 Need It All