Don't Let Your Love Li... - Jaye Jayle - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

As the Louisville, Kentucky noise rock trio Young Widows scaled back their activity, guitarist/vocalist Evan Patterson created an everevolving solo project under the moniker of Jaye Jayle that explored the more abstract realms of his singer-songwriter abilities. The name had two meanings. First and foremost, it conjured the image of a bluebird locked in a cage. For Patterson, that image translated into being trapped with the blues and mired in depression. But the name was also an homage to J.J. Cale, the Tulsa sound originator best known for his song “After Midnight”. Fittingly, Jaye Jayle’s music is best suited for those after midnight hours, when the house lights are dim, the air is thick with humidity and tobacco smoke, perceptions are chemically altered, and every note carries far more gravity. On his new album “Don’t Let Your Love Life Let You Down” Patterson continues to mine his unique strain of the meditative blues while finally breaking the shackles of defeat and passing into a realm residing between Western stoicism and mystic wonder. He is accompanied as always by Todd Cook, Corey Smith and Neal Argabright, and with special guests as Chris Maggio, Victoria Fisher, Patrick Shiroishi and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. Jaye Jayle’s ‘secret’ member of the band, producer/multi-instrumentalist Ben Chisholm (Chelsea Wolfe), mixed the album in a ‘plush velvet landscape way’; “He is a genius to my ears. Ben’s ideas are modern and saturated with layers of sonic color. He takes the old American singer-songwriter template and imbue it with a kaleidoscope of sonic textures culled from a half-century’s worth of fringe music. He made sure that the songs felt ‘devastatingly hopeful and emotionally straightforward’ on the album”. You can hear the echoes of Louisville in the new 8 songs. There is the tension and dynamics of Slint, the hushed songwriting of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and the repetitious minimalism of Shipping News, yet it somehow doesn’t tether to any tradition, it’s ‘just’ Evan’s cryptic spin on American roots music. As a reaction on the ‘minimalistic’ approach of his fourth album “Prisyn” (Sargent House/2020), Patterson returned to the full-band approach, taking the crucial lessons he learned from working on “Prisyn”; “I’d hit the point of finding rehearsing counterproductive. I felt I could better make everything happen in the studio again, rather than endlessly writing and trying things out, only to not ever be able to get the songs feeling the way that I was hearing them in my head”.

Tracklist

1. Warm Blood and Honey
2. The Party of Redemption
3. Black Diamonds and Bad Apples
4. That Snake Bite
5. Tell Me Live
6. Waiting For the Life
7. The Florist
8. When We Are Dogs

Label: Pelagic | Origin: Holland

📌 .. Life Get You Down