一聽音樂網

Utilizing a tight mesh of live and electronic instruments along with the visceral harmonies of the two artists’ voices, Jogger’s new release is a psychedelic experience that is emotive, weird, dangerous, captivating, scary and funny, often all at the same time. A definite ribbon of folk-feel and psych-pop runs through the album, which draws from the musical elements of many decades. However these are the folk of the future, a post-apocalyptic breed of humans that live in tribes and trade poems for pure water. Perhaps it is the location of Jogger’s production, Los Angeles, that has bled this end-of-the-world ethos into each track; it is almost as if the West Coast setting demands the superharmonic nature of the album, for at this point it is either get along, or die. This Great Pressure captures all the gritty dirtiness of human reality as well as the soaring energy of hope that careens through slick city streets, and one can understand this poignant dichotomy no matter where on earth one calls home