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Jerkcurb is midair. There’s something so lightweight and feathery about everything the Southeast London musician and multidisciplinary artist has pieced together since releasing his first work under his current moniker in 2012—from the somber atmospheres on earlier tracks like “Midnight Snack” or the jumpier, bizarro moods of his latest studio cuts, “Voodoo Saloon” and “Timelapse Tulip.”
Jacob Read has released a new Jerkcurb offering this Tuesday afternoon, this one going down the gauzier, dreamier rabbit hole. The new track, titled “Air Con Eden,” is the latest cut and title track taken from the musician’s forthcoming (and long-awaited) debut album Air Con Eden.
Read creates a lush, imaginative playing field on “Air Con Eden,” where the track comes alive in the dayglow of ringing synths, reverberating guitars and rich, sedated melodies. Read sings of the malleability and worthlessness of time against chimes and other fractured remnants of shopping-mall Muzak: “I’ll be in my air-conditioned Eden / Where the seasons never change / They won’t go away.”
The track’s production—from its keening guitars to the bass hidden somewhere underneath the crashing cymbals—is pristine and almost squeaky-clean, each sound, tone and mood working to capture the feeling of stalled time in a four-minute lullaby.
The term “air-conditioned eden” recalls the early Victor Gruen shopping malls built in America in the mid-20th century, Jerkcurb explains in a statement. Elaborating on the themes of the album, the musician continues:
