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Jaga Jazzist return with first album since 2015
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 27 February 2020
Jaga Jazzist have announced that they will release their first album for five years in April. Titled ‘Pyramid’, the follow-up to 2015’s ‘Starfire’ will also be their first release through Brainfeeder – the band having previously put out music through its sister label Ninja Tune.
Taking a different approach to the making of ‘Starfire’ – which was painstakingly constructed over a two year period with Jørgen Træen – ‘Pyramid’ was recorded over an intense two weeks, the five members of the band holed up alone in a Swedish woodland location.
“The most important thing is that we didn’t want to over-analyse every musical idea”, says drummer Martin Horntveth. “We wanted to follow the first and original idea and keep the freshness. It was hard but felt natural to [produce the record] ourselves, as five of us are producers and make records for a living”.
Commenting on the finished result, frontman Lars Hontveth adds: “I felt that this album is a small symphony, each part containing its own rooms to explore”.
The album is out on 24 Apr, and you can hear one of its four tracks, ‘Spiral Era’, below. The band will also play a UK show at London’s Islington Assembly Hall on 6 May.
