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██▓▀ Album......[ JJ N░ 2 ▀▓██
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█▒█▓█▄▀ Catalog #..[ YOURS0115 ▀▄█▓█▒█
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▓▓█▓▀ ██ Language...[ English ██ ▀▓█▓▓
▀ ▄████ Rip Date...[ 2009-08-08 ████▄ ▀
▄ ▀ ▓█▓ Store Date.[ 2009-07-01 ▓█▓ ▀ ▄
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▀█▓▀ Quality....[ 181 kbps AVG VBR 44.1/Joint Stereo ▀▓█▀
▄ █▓█▄▓█▓ Url........[ http://www.sincerelyyours.se ▓█▓▄█▓█ ▄
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█▓ 01 Things Will Never Be The Same Again 3:34 ▓█
█▓ 02 From Africa To Mßlaga 2:50 ▓█
█▓ 03 Ecstasy 3:33 ▓█
█▓ 04 Are You Still In Vallda? 2:34 ▓█
█▓ 05 My Love 3:12 ▓█
█▓ 06 Intermezzo 2:47 ▓█
█▓ 07 My Hopes And Dreams 2:43 ▓█
█▓ 08 Masterplan 2:48 ▓█
█▓ 09 Me & Dean 2:41 ▓█
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█░█▒ 0101, 0103, 0107, 0108, 0113, and 0115. Since all ▒█░█
█░█▒ jj choose to show of themselves is their music, ▒█░█
█░█▒ video, and occasional blood-spattered merch, then ▒█░█
█░█▒ those Sincerely Yours catalogue numbers represent ▒█░█
█░█▒ the sum total of what we know about them. Hell, we ▒█░█
█░█▒ wouldn't even know jj were a "them" had the group's ▒█░█
█░█▒ Gothenburg, Sweden-based, Tough Alliance-owned ▒█░█
█░█▒ label not confirmed that. So... they're ▒█░█
█░█▒ mysterious-- but not inscrutable: Despite a brief ▒█░█
█░█▒ discography that's already geekily byzantine enough ▒█░█
█░█▒ for anybody who ever bought into the legend of ▒█░█
█░█▒ Factory Records, jj's full-length debut is as easy ▒█░█
█░█▒ to enjoy as whatever the last CD was you brought ▒█░█
█░█▒ home with a giant cannabis leaf on the cover. ▒█░█
█░█▒ They're as naive as they are cynical-- or is it the ▒█░█
█░█▒ other stupid way around?-- and they manage to be ▒█░█
█░█▒ pretty, touching, funny, and motivating, in ▒█░█
█░█▒ different ways, in all the right places, for nine ▒█░█
█░█▒ songs lasting 28 minutes. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ You don't need me to tell you for the 128th time ▒█░█
█░█▒ (320th if you're at CD quality) how digital file ▒█░█
█░█▒ distribution has spread sounds and ideas across the ▒█░█
█░█▒ globe during the current decade, and jj have earned ▒█░█
█░█▒ a place among the current wave of pop ▒█░█
█░█▒ globalization, sharing both the island sounds and ▒█░█
█░█▒ sticky-fingered irreverence of their labelmates the ▒█░█
█░█▒ Tough Alliance, Air France, and the Honeydrips. ▒█░█
█░█▒ Sure, jj still carry traces of iconic twee label ▒█░█
█░█▒ Sarah Records, but they celebrate a broader ▒█░█
█░█▒ definition of "pop". Sometimes, as on ▒█░█
█░█▒ "Lollipop"-biting slo-mo raver "Ecstasy", jj do ▒█░█
█░█▒ this by borrowing from global hip-hop culture. But ▒█░█
█░█▒ they also participate. Never by straight-up ▒█░█
█░█▒ rapping, but by expanding the reach of ambient ▒█░█
█░█▒ music-- defined expansively, as Brian Eno once did, ▒█░█
█░█▒ as music that "suggests, a place, a landscape, a ▒█░█
█░█▒ soundworld which you inhabit"-- to include a whole ▒█░█
█░█▒ new kind of swagger. "Of course there is people out ▒█░█
█░█▒ to get me," a female vocalist sings on "My Hopes ▒█░█
█░█▒ and Dreams" as hand percussion evokes the ▒█░█
█░█▒ Avalanches' beach blowouts, hypnotic guitar recalls ▒█░█
█░█▒ German Kosmiche Muzik, and gusts of winds whistle ▒█░█
█░█▒ over high-noon Ennio Morricone strings. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Then again, on the same song, jj's singer just ▒█░█
█░█▒ wants "someone to share my hopes and dreams with"-- ▒█░█
█░█▒ a humbler goal to be sure, but jj excel just as ▒█░█
█░█▒ much at strummy intimacy as they do at lavish ▒█░█
█░█▒ blissouts. The lo-fi hooks on "Tell It to My ▒█░█
█░█▒ Heart"-biting closer "Me & Dean" suggests TTA's ▒█░█
█░█▒ aching teen-pop cover "Lucky", only done as an ▒█░█
█░█▒ original this time. The pisstake-y giggles also ▒█░█
█░█▒ make you wonder if you're hearing their mixtape ▒█░█
█░█▒ outro. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ When jj drift closer to early-1990s ambient-house, ▒█░█
█░█▒ they still allow emotion to flood through the ▒█░█
█░█▒ textures, and they never start repeating ▒█░█
█░█▒ themselves. Opener "Things Will Never Be the Same ▒█░█
█░█▒ Again" sets almost new-agey strings and Enya-esque ▒█░█
█░█▒ sailing imagery to a bouncy Caribbean rhythm: "I ▒█░█
█░█▒ close my eyes and remember/ A place in the sun ▒█░█
█░█▒ where we used to live." For all the flickering ▒█░█
█░█▒ synths and rainforest percussion of "Masterplan", ▒█░█
█░█▒ we also get Top Gun guitar rocketry, ▒█░█
█░█▒ faux-innocent-as-Disney sing-song, and that ▒█░█
█░█▒ reporter guy from YouTube going, "I'm dyin' in this ▒█░█
█░█▒ fucking country-ass fucked-up town." jj n░ 2 may be ▒█░█
█░█▒ easy on the ears, but it isn't wallpaper. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ At their most ideal, ambient, hip-hop, punk, and ▒█░█
█░█▒ the most crassly commercial pop all have in common ▒█░█
█░█▒ an "anything goes" approach. Like any ideal, this ▒█░█
█░█▒ usually gets fucked up pretty fast. "New Age" ▒█░█
█░█▒ harnesses ambient's chill-out pleasantness to ▒█░█
█░█▒ eco-politics and yuppie mysticism; old rappers ▒█░█
█░█▒ start dissing younger rappers for not following in ▒█░█
█░█▒ their footsteps or being more socially conscious; ▒█░█
█░█▒ the punk and indie traditions become as ▒█░█
█░█▒ idol-worshiping as the classic-rockers they sought ▒█░█
█░█▒ to displace. jj obliterate that bullshit and get ▒█░█
█░█▒ back to a place where Lil Wayne can be ambient, and ▒█░█
█░█▒ Enya can show up on an album with a pot leaf on the ▒█░█
█░█▒ cover. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Free mp3 "From Africa to Mßlaga", on some days my ▒█░█
█░█▒ favorite track on the album, is almost as suited ▒█░█
█░█▒ for a cruise-ship commercial as Iggy Pop's "Lust ▒█░█
█░█▒ for Life". But it also faces Important Ideas like ▒█░█
█░█▒ death and art with the clear-eyed precocity of an ▒█░█
█░█▒ adolescent, riding in on trade winds with a message ▒█░█
█░█▒ that could speak to middle-school cheerleaders and ▒█░█
█░█▒ middle-aged soccer moms and middlebrow-loathing ▒█░█
█░█▒ former punks alike: "The thought that you found/ ▒█░█
█░█▒ Takes you to town/ Smashes your face/ Burns out ▒█░█
█░█▒ your heart/ Then you go home and turn it into art." ▒█░█
█░█▒ Pop's just fine, too, thanks. ▒█░█
█░█▒ ù Marc Hogan, July 17, 2009 ▒█░█
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█░█▒ http://www.sincerelyyours.se ▒█░█
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