JayWood dives into his sun-kissed and soul-soaked new EP ‘Develop On,’ a euphoric file that builds out the world of his final album ‘Slingshot’ and basks within the glow of his personal radiant sound.

Stream: “Dirk Gently (Know Your self)” – JayWood

At some level, deep within the thick of JayWood’s new EP, it turns into clear that he’s having absolutely the time of his life.

Perhaps it’s the smoldering layers of sizzling soul sound raining down, as if from the heavens – the feverish bass work, the soul-stirring drum beats, the glistening guitars, and churning pianos – or perhaps it’s the lyrics, so lots of which appear to embrace residing unapologetically within the current. Or maybe it’s the chance to cowl his favourite artist, which he does together with his personal charismatic fashion and finesse. A cinematic and soul-soaked seduction, Develop On is a golden second of euphoria for JayWood as he continues to construct out the world of his final album Slingshot, basking within the glow of his personal radiant sound.

Keep right here, inform me is it reality or is it worry?
Trigger perhaps your youth will set you free
Or perhaps I simply don’t know nothing
Whereas it nonetheless comes straightforward to me
I’ll develop, photos of issues performed on a roll
Nicely isn’t it cool? That’s it for me.
Transferring outta cycles spinning out,
is that this what it’s all about?

Inform me one factor, inform me nothing
Is all of it however wasted?
Perhaps sometime we’ll have one thing
That claims “The whole lot’s related”
I can’t overstep, I can’t be nobody else
Mama advised me that “you bought to know your self”
Trigger time received’t wait, so whether or not it’s true
I’ll let you understand

– “Dirk Gently (Know Your self),” JayWood

Launched August 11 through Captured Tracks, Develop On is twenty minutes of sweaty, psychedelic revelry and reverie. The twenty-minute expertise arrives simply 13 months after Montreal-by-way-of-Winnipeg based mostly Jeremy Haywood-Smith surprised audiences around the globe together with his sophomore LP Slingshot, a vibrant and full-bodied file brimming with life, beautiful ranges of vitality, deep reflections, and totally alluring sonics.

“Develop On is fabricated from songs and concepts from the Slingshot periods that weren’t totally prepared for the album, however they kinda fill within the gaps making a extra full piece of labor in my thoughts,” JayWood tells Atwood Journal. “[My vision], I’d need to say, was having a “full” model of the album out on the earth. I believe with this EP it actually brings the entire album collectively and due to that it didn’t actually change issues an excessive amount of – if something, it simply created somewhat extra focus.”

“I believe Develop On actually simply appears like me enjoying and having enjoyable with some concepts,” he provides. “After I was engaged on Slingshot I felt so laser targeted that I needed to remind myself to benefit from the expertise however, having a small venture like this it was simply so good to be making music once more and dealing these muscular tissues once more after taking a tiny break between initiatives.”

Since debuting in 2017, JayWood has been seemingly relentless on his quest for inventive evolution. A plethora of early tracks led as much as 2019’s debut album Time, after which level he hunkered down and, however for one or two standalone singles releases, didn’t reemerge till it was time to start out teasing out Slingshot.

“The place Time was my Musicianship venture, and Slingshot was my Producer venture, I believe Develop On and regardless of the subsequent album is basically appears like my composer/association second?” he muses. “Who is aware of, however that’s tremendous thrilling but additionally exhausting af. I’m stoked for the following album, to be sincere!”

JayWood describes this EP as “wild, busy, and sunny,” and the shoe suits completely!

Develop On is a beautiful, multi-chromatic coalescence: A celebration of artistry radiating JayWood’s confidence and luxury in his personal pores and skin. The title Develop On has a couple of totally different meanings. “It was one thing my mother advised me to do in one among our final conversations collectively, and that actually caught with me,” he says. “It’s additionally the final lyric on the album, so it simply continues on the theme of ‘wanting again to go ahead.’”

From the very first piano and synthesizer hits of “Heavy Eyes” to the acoustic outro of his Tyler, the Creator cowl “SWEET,” JayWood all however assures his viewers stays hanging onto each second. He packs quite a lot of uncooked expertise and dazzling musicianship into these 4 tracks, beginning with the five-minute opener he describes as “4 songs smushed into one.”

“I believe the bizarre Frankenstein nature of the monitor kinda sums up among the bigger themes happening within the track,” he says of “Heavy Eyes.” “The lyrics virtually really feel like a optimistic manifestation of issues to come back sooner or later whereas the sonic facet of the track is only a reflection of the concept I’m at all times altering and I continuously change my thoughts to maintain issues fascinating.”

Nicely I don’t actually wanna stand alone
Despite the fact that it’s new gotta go hit the grooves
Yeah you possibly can inform me something, that I can imagine in
The whole lot you lose are the identical stuff you run to

(So what chu gonna do with it?)
Trigger you bought all this time good god oh why?
As a result of we’re residing midway by way of the seams
(So what chu gonna do with it?)
I by no means needed to present this ache I hold down
Till it began giving out on me

– “Heavy Eyes,” JayWood

The EP’s lead single, “Dirk Gently (Know Your self)” is one other immediate spotlight off this assortment: A radiant reckoning stuffed with deep reflections and breathtaking grooves, the track has an uncanny approach of getting us all up in our feels, in all the precise methods. A sweaty, excessive vitality reverie involves mild as he dives deep into his personal depths, delivering an exhilaratingly soulful and seductive efficiency meant to seize the drama, the magic, and the surprise of self-discovery. Catharsis and cacophony can usually really feel like one, they usually actually movement collectively on this track.

Be true, possession of issues I wanna do
Trigger currently my view simply isn’t clear
Transferring outta cycles spinning out, is that this what it’s all about?
Now you possibly can simply shake it off, exhausting instances you possibly can simply take all of it
Devil and God gave me consideration, overcome with no route
On-line lookin inside the home, offline lookin inside myself
Overcome with no route, all was misplaced or so I believed

That’s after I punched again in actual time
And located each little factor in a brand new mild
I seemed to the solar and he seemed again to me
Then he requested me “is that this actually the place you wanna be?” No

“‘Dirk’ is a track that’s very paying homage to a few of my older funk/disco songs,” JayWood shares. “It’s a track that’s simply me explaining going by way of a full blown bout of psychosis, it was a very bizarre tough time and I needed to navigate quite a lot of issues I’ve been laying aside for a while. I usually use distinction for tougher themes in my music, if it’s one thing unhappy i’ll put it in a dance track however uncommon is it that I simply let a tragic track really feel kinda unhappy in order that’s undoubtedly one thing I need to discover shifting ahead.”

JayWood finishes off the EP’s again half with a slower, virtually Motown-esque “OG” model of the Slingshot monitor, “Thank You,” and a charming cowl of Tyler, the Creator’s “SWEET,” taken off his 2021 album, Name Me If You Get Misplaced.

“I’m so rattling comfortable that I used to be in a position to do “SWEET” – I’ve been speaking about eager to cowl that track because it’s been out, so to really pull it off felt like an enormous achievement,” JayWood beams. “I’ve to offer the most important shoutout to one among my greatest pals/inventive collaborators Brett Ticzon for tag teaming this monitor with me. It was such an enormous activity however actually having him assist with it made it far more attainable.”

On the subject of favourite lyrics, he harkens again to a line on “Dirk Gently (Know Your self).”

“Devil and God gave me consideration, overcome with no route. One thing about that felt tremendous regalian. Like I wrote them phrases with my pinky out and a feather on the pen sort of shit!” he laughs.

There’s no denying it: JayWood is in an incredible place, and he channeled that optimistic vitality right into a soulful file of sun-kissed brilliance.

“I [hope] listeners/potential new followers simply take pleasure in it greater than something. I’d hope at this level it’s turn into somewhat clear to people who as an artist I don’t have any intentions on doing the identical factor again and again, and I plan on altering and rising with my music between initiatives,” JayWood shares. “So greater than something I hope this creates some incentive for people to stay round for my inventive journey forward but additionally to look again at a few of my older initiatives to see how far I’ve come! So go take heed to Time, then go take heed to Slingshot, after which take heed to Develop On.”

As for his personal takeaways, JayWood is already prepared for the following huge factor – and most significantly, he’s positive of himself and his potential to carry no matter his thoughts desires as much as life.

“I’ve taken away that I ought to belief myself extra and provides myself on a regular basis mandatory to complete a venture during. No matter I do subsequent shall be cool af and far totally different from these initiatives. Now that Develop On is out it kinda marks the tip of an period for me and it will get me actually excited for all the brand new issues I’m in a position to do now as a result of I had some room to strive some new issues in addition to simply put myself on the market with some new concepts between Slingshot/Develop On.”

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Heavy Eyes

This monitor appears like 4 songs smushed into one. I believe the bizarre Frankenstein nature of the monitor kinda sums up among the bigger themes happening within the track. The lyrics virtually really feel like a optimistic manifestation of issues to come back sooner or later whereas the sonic facet of the track is only a reflection of the concept I’m at all times altering and I continuously change my thoughts to maintain issues fascinating.This track was imagined to be Monitor 13 putting it proper earlier than Arrival so it’s virtually like the correct ending to the album in a approach. Favorite moments: The entire intro, 2:35-3:08 has such a sick transition, and the outro bit for the oldsters that don’t discover it’s the bass line for Arrival! The 2 songs would’ve seamlessly gone into one another.

Dirk Gently (Know Your self)

“Dirk” is a track that’s very paying homage to a few of my older funk/disco songs. It’s a track that’s simply me explaining going by way of a full blown bout of psychosis, it was a very bizarre tough time and I needed to navigate quite a lot of issues I’ve been laying aside for a while. I usually use distinction for tougher themes in my music, if it’s one thing unhappy i’ll put it in a dance track however uncommon is it that I simply let a tragic track really feel kinda unhappy in order that’s undoubtedly one thing I need to discover shifting ahead. I really like this track, however I simply don’t wanna be doing a bunch of dance songs! Dirk would’ve been proper after YGBO making it monitor 11. Favorite moments: Truthfully this may be among the finest bass strains i’ve written up to now, I actually like how the second verse begins up somewhat scarce, and that lil devil snigger is hilarious, The EDM refrain drop is so dope it’s kinda humorous to me. This track actually feels prefer it ought to’ve been on the album nonetheless I’m so stoked it isn’t so it could actually have room to shine on it’s personal!

Thank You (OG Model)

After I first recorded “Thank You” it was at a brilliant uncooked level in my life, I had simply misplaced my mom and I simply needed to have one thing that felt somewhat extra uplifting and comfortable throughout such a tough time. After I first confirmed folks this track the response of it mentioned all of it, it actually hit folks. I believe it was the primary time in my complete inventive profession that I had one thing that really related to folks in a approach that felt extra actual than simply having a enjoyable track to bounce to. The model of the track I did with Jacob Portrait is so superb and it captures so lots of the emotions that went into the unique nonetheless I felt like I wanted to redo my authentic tackle the track to  seize the otherside of issues. The primary inspo behind the unique was Al Greene’s “Let’s Keep Collectively” which was my mothers favorite track or atleast the track I keep in mind her enjoying probably the most round the home. I needed the groove of the track to really feel actually motown impressed like not an excessive amount of happening and letting issues breath as a lot as attainable. There’s an enormous gospel feeling on this track as nicely, my mother was a fairly common church goer so I needed to include among the emotions that resembled what church kinda felt like. My favorite second of this track is tremendous straightforward that closing refrain 3:21 3:55, when the piano is available in it’s cooks kiss at it’s most interesting! Big Shoutout to Brett Ticzon for his efficiency! Which is an ideal segway to the following monitor.

SWEET (Tyler The Creator Cowl)

So if it isn’t tremendous obvious at this level, Tyler The Creator might be one among my favorite artists of all time. There’s so many causes as to why however I believe the most important one which has stored me engaged all through the years is the truth that he’s simply being himself and he’s permitting himself to vary and saying “fuck anyones expectations” I actually love that perspective of letting your self simply do what makes probably the most sense to you. Whereas I used to be engaged on the album in 2021 “Name Me If You Get Misplaced” got here out, and I listened to it in a single shot and proceeded to take heed to it on repeat for the weeks to observe. I used to be fairly deep within the recording course of so I made positive to not let the album intervene with any new concepts or something like that for “Slingshot” . I had the thought to do a canopy of “SWEET” for some time, nonetheless it at all times appeared so formidable. After I lastly received a while in April between touring to get again into the studio, I teamed up with Brett Ticzon who’s one among my greatest pals in addition to the keyboard participant in my band and we co-produced the duvet! As quickly as all the important thing components have been laid out the remainder of the track felt attainable! Favorite moments: The entire ass factor, nice track

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