Name: So Sorry So Slow
Brand: Adult Jazz

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2024-04-26

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Adult Jazz

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Alternative / Modern

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Spare Thought

Adult Jazz is an innovative and genre-defying musical project hailing from the United Kingdom. With their unique blend of experimental pop, jazz, and electronic elements, they have carved out a distinct sound that captivates listeners. Led by frontman Harry Burgess, Adult Jazz has gained critical acclaim for their thought-provoking lyrics and intricate compositions. Their debut album "Gist Is" showcases their ability to seamlessly weave together complex melodies and rhythms, creating a truly immersive listening experience. Whether you're a fan of avant-garde music or simply appreciate boundary-pushing artistry, Adult Jazz is sure to leave a lasting impression.
Formed in [year], Adult Jazz quickly made waves in the music scene with their unconventional approach to songwriting and performance. Drawing inspiration from various genres such as jazz, indie rock, and electronica, they have crafted a sound that defies categorization. The band's commitment to pushing boundaries extends beyond their music; they are known for their visually stunning live shows that incorporate elements of theater and dance.
Since the release of "Gist Is," Adult Jazz has garnered a dedicated following around the world. Their unique sound has earned them comparisons to artists like Dirty Projectors and Animal Collective while maintaining an unmistakable identity of its own. With each new release, Adult Jazz continues to push artistic boundaries and challenge conventional notions of what popular music can be.

London-based four-piece Adult Jazz release their first full-length album in a decade, So Sorry So Slow, via Spare Thought. It features the single ‘Suffer One’ featuring Owen Pallett, a cautious excavation of self and sexuality, clambering across a gorgeously shapeshifting, filmic five-minutes.

Containing some of the band’s most abrasive but gentle, beautiful and melismatic work to date,&nbsp;So Sorry So Slow&nbsp;has many defining characteristics: romance, panic, devotion and remorse, threaded together by an intentionally laser-focused love. It’s deeply personal, bruised and candid in its expressions of tenderness, and deeply pained in its concurrent reflections of ecological regret. Across its hour-long runtime, a delicate, frenetic energy and glacial heaviness coexist, the band pitting those paces against one another. In their richly experimental timbre, dancing strings and fluttering falsettos prang against a bed of brass drones like a wounded bird.

“We started writing in 2017 and began recording in 2018,” says vocalist Harry Burgess. “We genuinely thought it might be finished in 2018! But things kept developing and, having resolutely not struck while the iron was hot, there was no real external push to rush things after that, so we just kept letting things shift and unfold until it felt right. Listening back to my voice notes it’s nice to notice that there are fragments of ideas from the whole period 2017-2023 which have shaped the record.”

Recorded in bursts at studios across London and in the band members’ flats, at Konk, on the Isle of Wight and in Sussex,&nbsp;So Sorry&nbsp;is unambiguous in its evolution. Sonically, there are sparks of the arrhythmic brightness that afforded the band’s critically acclaimed debut album&nbsp;Gist Is&nbsp;its cult adoration, for fans of Arthur Russell and Meredith Monk, but with a blossoming, melancholic darkness often overhead. Piano sprees and luscious string sections appear like low-hanging stars on a night-time drive, whilst plunging vocal distortions and humming brass loops resurrect heavy limbs in a bad dream.&nbsp;

“I usually have objects as kind of totems for ideas,” explains Burgess. “The album initially started out to do with performance… [the totem] was a head mic, one of the subtle skin-tone ones, discreet on the forehead of a West End star. A number of the first songs in their original forms were almost musical theatre piano ballads. I think that was really a device to write about my life as the ‘main character’ (pre internet-speak reframing): regrets about romance, relationships - unsustainable relationships with the self and others.”

“However, once we started writing, the ideas about unsustainable personal relationships, loving unevenly and heartbreak conflated with a more expressly ecological regret. Like contending with big feelings of loss, endings, beauty, desolation, and with how much joy the earth contains in it. Feeling so much gratitude bound up in waves of sadness. Maybe witnessing a slow-motion goodbye to all that, or its last gasps. I love the earth and the life it supports so much. I love how ecosystems fit together - even the brutal stuff. It may be basic to say, but now is the time to be laser focused on that love. I was thinking about human centrality on earth, us as the ‘main character’, the way that is served by faith and romanticism, and the subsequent disingenuous understandings of our position in the ecosystem, as only stewards somehow, rather than subjects. The totems at this point: a herald’s horn, lorry inner tubes, archaeological tools. I guess from doom, industry, history respectively.”

“Now I would say the record is about gripping. Totems being: crampons, rope, drips, desalination equipment, accruing various survival tech. I think gripping sums up both of the threads. There’s the emotionally correct clinging to the earth that is the substrate of everything we value, or the delusional clinging to our imagined dominant position. But also the practical, technological aspects of creating a sustainable relationship, of remaining here. Then I think of romance again.”

So Sorry So Slow

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Discover So Sorry, So Slow by Adult Jazz on Spare Thought. London-based band's first album in a decade, featuring the new single 'Suffer One' with Owen Pallett.