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JWords: Sound Therapy

Pitchfork·Stephen Kearse·21 days ago
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Brooklyn producer JWords makes chill beats to worry to. While her propulsive tracks are technically danceable, and rappers are her most frequent collaborators, her music tends to evoke the nervy spaces contiguous to the dancefloor: the bathroom, the line for the club, a laggy livestream, the back alley where smokers and exhausted revelers take five. There’s an undercurrent of isolation to her scrambled blends of footwork, techno, and Jersey club—a sense that even when heard in a crowd, music is solitary, sounds rattling around a single skull. Her last album, 2022’s Self-Connection , culminated in “Anxious,” six minutes of rickety percussion and throbbing synths occasionally eased by soft melodies. Interior dance music, one might call it. JWords takes a different tack on Sound Therapy , embracing gentle synth melodies and pads that take the edge off her skittering drums and pounding basslines.…

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