Jay Reatard i en blå hule, foto: Matador Records

Sist Jay Reatard og hans utrolige band besøkte landet med sin intense, melodiøse og raske rock fikk vi beviset på at en 35 minutters konsert kan være en veldig god idé. Trioen kommer snart tilbake, og nå kan du få en forsmak på det nye albumet.

Du får formidlet enormt mye  på 35 minutter dersom du ikke stopper, ikke engang bremser, et sekund. Jay Reatard rakk omtrent 17 låter, og forlot et jublende publikum for å komme tilbake i på en større scene i august. Om han er like rastløs på Øyafestivalen gjenstår å se, men det er all grunn til å ha store forventninger.  En svært kontaktsøkende bassist fortalte Lydverket at Jay Reatard dessuten hadde planer om å komme tilbake til Oslo i Oktober, vi holder fortsatt fingre krysset for en bekreftelse av den nyheten.

Jay Reatard’s forrige to album har vært singelsamlinger, men 18. August kommer albumet Watch Me Fall, et ganske annet prosjekt. Vi gir ordet til Jay:

“This new album has been challenging. It’s the first time I’ve written and recorded an album specifically because a label wants to release it. I’ve never made a record for a record label. I’ve always finished my recordings and then a label is decided on. When I made ’Blood Visions’ I had no idea that it was going to see the light of day. And I’ve never made a record in which the label heard the songs, or anyone heard the songs, before the album was finished, so that’s kind of intense. That’s what singles are for; I always considered my singles as a glimpse between the albums. Labels always had the previous single as an example of where I was going at the time, or of what the next album might sound like. In this situation, people at the label are hearing the songs before the album has been finished, but I try not to let it distract me, I’m trying to go about this process in a way that’s the closest to how I would have done an album in the past. A lot of bands these days, they approach the making of an album like it’s collecting songs, they don’t think about how all of the songs are going to work together. They sequence their albums on iTunes, wondering what songs sound best next to each other rather than putting them together as they were written. That’s not an album.”

Første smakebit fra Watch Me Fall får du her:

«It Ain’t Gonna Save Me»Jay Reatard – It Aint Gonna Save Me

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Her kan du se et Reatarded høydepunkt: «I’m Watching You»

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