JACK NAME - Fabulous Soundtracks LP

Limited edition of 500 copies.

Highly recommended.

Fabulous Soundtracks is among the best albums we've heard for 2024. Features strong Lee Hazlewood vibes.

Jack Name should appeal to the clever individuals who grabbed James Jonathan Clancy 'Sprecato' - also back in stock, as are all three WHITNEY K releases.

The fourth studio album by reclusive LA musician Jack Name, is an homage to the IRL world and its twisted and varied romance with the worlds of our minds, in a wild collection of "soundtracks'', each a sonic re-construction dedicated to a distinct scene. Both musically and lyrically, this is Name's most adventurous and genre-defying album. Elements of acid, dance, folk, micro-tonal weirdness, horror, sensuality, impressionism, and bursts of rock fuse with Name's most direct yet ethereal lyric writing to date.

Despite being a somewhat ubiquitous character in the Los Angeles music scene, Name has maintained a consistently shadowy, mysterious persona. He has defiantly opted out of social media and is moving further away from conventional rock spaces, rarely playing live, and even then, often to improvise. His practice refuses social pressures when seen as detrimental to his artistic instincts, a rare and risky path for an artist in today’s world, but a bold and noteworthy one.

So it should come as no surprise that Fabulous Soundtracks sounds nothing like the music his peers are making, if he can be said to really have any. For all of its earnestness, the album is a wildly fun and versatile listen; as a soundtrack to your own IRL life of headless movements and sensations, maybe it can influence you to actually notice some of them. Or give it a listen somewhere dark and still if you can find such a place, and mix it into your dreams.