Jay Som announces debut album Everybody Works
16 January 2017, 17:01
| Written by
Laurence Day
San Francisco Bay Area multi-instrumentalist Jay Som announces her debut record Everybody Works and shares lead single "The Bus Song".
The single is bright and infectious, with warm bouts of blankety fuzz in the chorus and gleaming guitars around every bend. Som's charm shines through on "The Bus Song", keeping you enchanted from start to end.
Jay Som - aka Melina Duterte - gathered a bunch of early material together for her Turn Into collection last year, but this'll be her "proper" debut.
The entire thing was written, recorded, performed, and produced by Duterte ("save a few backing vocals") over three weeks in her bedroom studio.
Everybody Works is out 10 March via Double Denim.
Latest
- Deerhoof share double B-side release with all proceeds donated to The Trevor Project
- Confidence Man join forces with Eliza Rose on "I HEART YOU"
- The Wytches, Lizzie Essau, Bethan Lloyd, among new additions for Focus Wales 2025
- Garbage announce new album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
- Matt Maltese details his sixth studio album, Hers
- Laura Misch unveils new single, "Alchemy"
- Goya Gumbani teams up with Ezra Collective's Joe Armon-Jones on new single, "Manuva(s)"
Get the Best Fit take on the week in music direct to your inbox every Friday
Read next
Listen
Maria Usbeck envelops the listener in a tide on "Mantarraya"
Mychelle's "Sweet Nothings" embodies an elevated state
"Beheadal" introduces your new favourite absurdist punk trio Sex Mask
Sydney Jo Jackson merges timeless soul with modern healing in “You Should Be Here”
Varas yearns for a temporary love in warm trip-hop track “Eaten by Worms”
Sienna Spiro waits for love to unfold on the spellbinding ballad “ORIGAMI”
Reviews
Panda Bear
Sinister Grift
27 Feb 2025
Matilda Mann
Roxwell
26 Feb 2025
Amulets
Not Around But Through
25 Feb 2025
Banks
Off With Her Head
25 Feb 2025
