JÆD's songwriting is volatile and totally absorbing

Jæd announces debut album 
'I Loved The Gauntlet And There Was No Other Way'
out 29th November via The Delphi Label

New single "Very Fond" out today
Watch video HERE

Previous live dates with Goat Girl, Micachu, Agnes Obel and Villagers
Festival appearances at Ireland Music Week and Music Cork
Influence ranging from Yves Tumor, Kate Bush, Death Grips & Deerhoof

WATCH, "Very Fond" video:
https://youtu.be/cg6ClF2lMPk

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(23rd September) –– London based Irish-Puerto Rican musician Jæd (pronounced: jade) today announces her debut album 'I Loved The Gauntlet And There Was No Other Way' - out 29th November on cult Irish label Delphi. The album announcement coincides with the release of new single "Very Fond" and an accompanying video directed by Martine Skogstadt, Daniel Jaroschik and Jæd.

On newly released single "Very Fond," a yearning for human connection is deftly captured through Jæd's singular lens, dispatched amidst freewheeling, snarling guitars, jagged drum patterns and spiralling vocal runs - finding an unlikely middle ground between uncompromising, absorbing songwriting of Fiona Apple and the fury of seminal post-hardcore band At The Drive-In.

Of the new single, Jæd said:

"When you’ve come through life growing up in poverty that state of scarcity and lack stays with you and seeps into everything and nothing is ever enough from others and yet there is this constant seeking to receive from others, attention, affection as well as material things. A desire to get. But actually the essence of one’s connectivity is what needs to be tended. 'Very Fond' isn’t that. It’s the hungry ghost, the desperation in constant consumption to the point that the more someone gives the less it is appreciated or even truly received.  And even people become things to be addicted to."

Working with producers including Andy Ramsay (Stereolab, Kero Kero Bonito, Nilüfer Yanya) and Dilip Harris (King Krule, Mount Kimbie) on 'I Loved The Gauntlet And There Was No Other Way' - Jæd's upcoming debut album is a project born of extremes and warring impulses.

The album tracks the growth of an artist and woman in real-time. Seduction, isolation, trauma, investigations of jealousy, the corporeal body and negotiations with femininity: these are the volatile elements she ignites in her music, a conflicting, ever-changing reaction of experience and sound. 

Jæd is the artist’s choice on the London live circuit, supporting the likes of Goat Girl, Micachu and Trupa Trupa, she is a regular at The Windmill, The George Tavern and Jaguar Shoes, and recently gained further traction with performances at Ireland Music Week and Music Cork, as well as Ritual Union Bristol and Cornwall's PLU Summer Camp.

Once seen live, Jæd is hard to forget. In her hands, the guitar is choked at the neck, tamed and mastered like a wild animal to yield a particular tone, while her voice – an instrument all of its own – is capable of incredible tenderness one moment, before taking on shades of desperation and defiance the next. Listen, and you will hear a maelstrom of influences: the psychedelic contortions of Yves Tumor, the vocal thrills of Kate Bush and the glitched-out, electronic freefalls of Death Grips. 

Jæd is the project of London based musician Jennifer Evans. To date, the project has received notable plaudits and support from The Line of Best Fit, The Forty-Five, Rough Trade, Nialler9 amongst others.

Jæd's debut album 'I Loved The Gauntlet And There Was No Other Way' is out 29th November via Delphi. Jæd plays Windmill Brixton on 30th September. New single "Very Fond" is out now.

LIVE DATES
30th September - London, Windmill Brixton
22nd October - London, Sebright Arms

'I Loved The Gauntlet And There Was No Other Way' - artwork and track list
out 29th November via Delphi

1. Vessel List
 2. Bakkos
3. The Rush To The Theft The Ache
4. The Gentle Work
5. All Abandon
6. Sight Gas Went Uh
7. Very Fond
8. To Cool
9. The Sting
10 Head Sols


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