Episode 18: Remembering Joy with Jam City (Teaser)

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In this episode Steph speaks with Jack Latham, a musician and producer also known as Jam City, whose releases on the UK’s Night Slugs label in the 2010s were some of the best examples of a post-club sound that had come to define a generation of artists.

After building a name for himself through this cross-Atlantic, post-dubstep amalgamation of grime and garage, hip-hop and bass music on Classical Curves in 2012, Jack’s follow-up record Dream a Garden in 2015 disavowed the slick high-definition and commercial aesthetics of his previous work in favour of a more critically lo-fi excursion into political thought and social activism.

Since then, Jack has been working primarily as a producer, spending extended periods in Los Angeles to work with artist like Troy Sivan, Lil Yachty and Kelela. Pillowland meanwhile is his first solo release in five years, dropped through his own Earthly label and primarily concerned with looking back at the music of the past to see what it can teach us about the present.