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From the very onset, "All the Little Lies" from Seattle's Jupe Jupe had me smiling. When you are intent on crafting 80's-esque blends of new wave and 90's post punk it is all about the sounds and Jupe Jupe crafts a nimble, well dressed universe without pandering to a lot of those 80's tropes. They trade those hand claps, synth drum sounds and 80's vocal drawls with captivating textures, vocal melodies that feel infused with tropical punk flavors and revisionist pulls from artful pop cues from times before, I even detect broad pop tones from the 50's / 60's and cool power pop guitar shapes. I am digging the vocal aesthetic and organic tones while still injecting the sound with a more Casio-fied punk tones.
Yeah, I'm smiling. "All the Little Lies" is from Jupe Jupe's upcoming 6th EP.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Jupe Jupe creates a dark and danceable soundscape: vocals croon over pulsing beats as guitars and sax cut across panoramic washes of synth.
The band serves up a noir cocktail of new music with its EP, Nightfall—five hook-laden songs about yearning that are simultaneously upbeat and melancholy. The group spent over a year meticulously crafting each tune on Nightfall—including adding a vital new saxophone element to its sound—before teaming up with producer Matt Bayles at Studio Litho in Seattle, Washington.
A former member of Minus the Bear, Bayles has produced and mixed a number of seminal albums by Botch, Mastodon, Murder City Devils, He Whose Ox Is Gored, The Blood Brothers, and many more. He also produced and engineered the previous Jupe Jupe album, 2017’s Lonely Creatures.
Since forming in 2010, the Seattle quartet has brought its unique style to four other original releases—Invaders, Reduction in Drag, Crooked Kisses, and Lonely Creatures—creating infectious tracks influenced by post-punk, synth-pop, and haunting Americana. The group also joined forces with a variety of renowned artists and producers for its remix album, Cut Up Kisses (featuring Lusine, Rick G. Nelson of The Afghan Whigs, Mike Simonetti, Erik Blood, and others).
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https://twitter.com/jupejupemusic
https://open.spotify.com/artist/61kth6vppTfu42zn6h66y2
https://www.instagram.com/jupejupemusic/
https://www.jupejupemusic.com/
https://soundcloud.com/jupejupemusic
Jupe Jupe creates a dark and danceable soundscape: vocals croon over pulsing beats as guitars and sax cut across panoramic washes of synth.
The band serves up a noir cocktail of new music with its EP, Nightfall—five hook-laden songs about yearning that are simultaneously upbeat and melancholy. The group spent over a year meticulously crafting each tune on Nightfall—including adding a vital new saxophone element to its sound—before teaming up with producer Matt Bayles at Studio Litho in Seattle, Washington.
A former member of Minus the Bear, Bayles has produced and mixed a number of seminal albums by Botch, Mastodon, Murder City Devils, He Whose Ox Is Gored, The Blood Brothers, and many more. He also produced and engineered the previous Jupe Jupe album, 2017’s Lonely Creatures.
Since forming in 2010, the Seattle quartet has brought its unique style to four other original releases—Invaders, Reduction in Drag, Crooked Kisses, and Lonely Creatures—creating infectious tracks influenced by post-punk, synth-pop, and haunting Americana. The group also joined forces with a variety of renowned artists and producers for its remix album, Cut Up Kisses (featuring Lusine, Rick G. Nelson of The Afghan Whigs, Mike Simonetti, Erik Blood, and others).
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