Vol. 3
Swedish disco-dream-pop-punk on DFA. With Tor Sjödén from Viagra Boys.

Vol. 3

JJULIUS

€ 31,95
  • LP
Label
DFA
Expected release
7 March 2025
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Description

With new albums from singular, world-building artists, the phrase “a big step forward” can often be a blinking red warning sign. Inertia is a hell of a thing. It’s nice here. Surely, the party’s not over?

JJULIUS’ Vol. 3 is a big step forward, or a step up, out of the murky basement of the preceding two volumes. Right of the top, no time to acclimate, a tiny violin pulls you  into the radiant bounce of “Brinna ut,” which, translation be damned (it means “Burn out” in Swedish), creates the kind of blind positivity and warm stomach feeling less cynical people might find in self-help seminars. For us, we have records like this, and Vol. 3 has charm like a balm.

JJULIUS records have always arrived like meteors from another planet (Gothenburg), a feeling underscored by the fact that they’re titled like compendiums. And while Vols. 1 and 2 carried that notable tinge of darkness, Vol. 3 has (almost!) cast that shadow, adding bits of disco (“Dödsdisco”) and dream-pop (“Etopisk hallucination”) to forever favorites Arthur Russell, African Head Charge, and The Fall.

Some of that new car smell is due to change in process. Each song was written over beats played by Tor Sjödén of the wild-eyed Stockholm group Viagra Boys, beats that were themselves inspired by tracks from the likes of Patrick Cowley, CAN, Count Ossie, Black Devil Disco Club and others that JJULIUS would send to him as inspiration.

Unless you're Mark E. Smith, fervor fades. Eventually we all crave a lie down in some nice grass, a few minutes to gaze at the sky and wonder if everything is actually all that bad. Vol. 3 gives you 35 minutes of that. “No looking back, no misery, no talking trash, no enemies.”

Tracklist

  • 1.Brinna Ut
  • 2.Etiopisk Hallucination
  • 3.Letar Efter Nya Plågor
  • 4.Köpa Saker
  • 5.Verkligheten Och Jag
  • 6.Balladen Om Elpriset I Augusti 2022
  • 7.Coral Bass Strings
  • 8.Dödsdisco
  • 9.Ringer Å Ringer
  • 10.Välkommen På Intervju

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