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Jul 6, 2016Jay II is a mysterious, endlessly enjoyable collection of songs that reveal more and more with subsequent listens.
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Jul 6, 2016There’s no laundry list of injustices or outrages to be found here: just an uber-compressed pop rune that muses on the sheer, disorienting helplessness that results from realizing that we’ll never be able to help everyone. Maybe, just maybe, stolid songcraft can be rescue enough.
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Jul 6, 2016Jay Arner may be something of a misanthrope, but he cares enough to make great pop records for the world at large, and Jay II's juxtaposition of form and content only makes its pleasures more intriguing.