British artist and musician and drummer Jem Doulton has been around for a while, having worked with several household names such as Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth fame as well as being a part of Róisín Murphy’s live band for years. Ever since 2021, Jem has started releasing original music under his own name and has just shared his second full-length album titled Deal of the Century.
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The soundscape painted by Jem on his sophomore record takes a lot from the avant-garde/no wave spectrum, filled with unconventional instrumentations and peculiar production choices. There is also a lot of noise involved, which is always brilliant for an artist like this. In the midst of all, Jem manages to find his voice and style in a very organic way, like waves crashing during a thunderstorm.
Everything gets kicked off by the epic almost seven minutes long title track and its accompanying music video, featuring collaborations from several different artists and musicians like Alex Ward, Ash Gardner, Claudia Giglio and Thurston Moore. The mesmerizing video features Jem himself performing the track looking straight at the camera, as different forms of static and projections swirl around him creating an unsettling mood that is somehow still comforting as the track itself. From then on in, across the seven other tracks that make up the album, Jem sparks with creativity and definitely finds his own voice.
For sure there are a lot of influences from the musical stylings Jem has embarked on from his past works with different people, and that just comes to show how Jem’s sound cannot be easily labeled. There is a certain post-rock quality to Deal of the Century, an approach to making rock music that defies traditional conventions of genre and structure. “Svetlana”, the second track, features an incredible use of sparse instrumentations and melodies, tied together by a heavily distorted bass guitar and weird electronic noises in the background that culminate in a true catharsis of sounds.
Deal of the Century runs for a little under forty-five minutes and shows the musician experimenting with textures and changing them every few seconds. It is an impeccably dynamic endeavour, firmly rooted in alternative rock but expanding it with noise pop aesthetics that go from a cacophony of electronics at one point, to orchestrations to jazz and bossa nova in another. Jem’s musical prowess shines every step of the way, and every single track brings forth its own incandescent glow and never once tarnishes it. By the time you get to stunning closer “Into the Jetstream” with its dichothomy between a piano ballad and gorgeous crystaline synths with arena-ready guitar riffs, something has been fundamentally changed.
Jem finds an awe-inspiring balance between levity and playfulness in its lyrics, while still dealing with serious political themes and philosophical wonderings that stretch themselves across the entire album. Featuring collaborations from several musicians and friends, Deal of the Century marvels the listener with its musical variety, constant changes in tempo and experimental production that feels primal and on right the edge between comforting and challenging.
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The soundscape painted by Jem on his sophomore record takes a lot from the avant-garde/no wave spectrum, filled with unconventional instrumentations and peculiar production choices.
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