Jelly Road
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80
The singer-songwriter-superproducer teams with the Vermont jazz musician for an invigorating collaborative album that’s whimsical and wistful in surprising ways.
4mo
80
Whatever this album may or may not reveal about the real Blake Mills, he’s evidently a person who cares deeply – even obsessively – about his chosen artform, and its ability to delight, console and transform. Jelly Road regularly does all three.
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4mo
80
Hooking up with cult jazz guitarist Chris Weisman, in demand producer/guitarist Blake Mills charts new sonic terrain.
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4mo
70
Blake Mills' latest favors the mellow pace of a Sunday afternoon rather than the contemplative melancholy of a midnight bonfire.
4mo
If the last Blake Mills album ‘Mutable Set’ was somewhat evasive and hard to get a precise handle on then ‘Jelly Road’ is even more so. In many ways Mills reminds me of Cass McCombs; both started out as alt country and then moved towards a faintly retro and sometimes psychedelic sound that’s hard to pigeonhole. Similar unhurried and ‘foggy’ arrangements abound, usually matched with cryptic and unconventional lyrics.
With Mills you’d say his ... read more
On Jelly Road, the latest album from producer/songwriter Blake Mills, he works with various collaborators to infuse sporadic jazz detours into his gentle folk, which ultimately make these songs stand out from the usual music in this style. Despite these left turns into long twisty guitar solos or unique percussive patterns, tracks like “Suchlike Horses”, “Skeleton Is Walking” & “Press My Luck” pass for well constructed accessible tracks, while ... read more
'Jelly Road" is my introduction to Blake Mills, it's not particularly an album that I come back to too much, but it was definitely a special experience hearing it for the first time. I was at a cottage up near the woods and it was really nice being up there, but naturally I decided that I would pick an album to listen to while I was there just for fun. And I decided on this album, I'm not sure why, but it had just come out and the cover looked pretty interesting so I wanted to check it ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Suchlike Horses 5:12 | 69 |
| 2 | Highway Bright 3:23 | 70 |
| 3 | Jelly Road 2:54 | 67 |
| 4 | Skeleton Is Walking 5:57 | 79 |
| 5 | Unsingable 3:02 | 49 |
| 6 | Wendy Melvoin 2:58 | 65 |
| 7 | The Light Is Long 3:14 | 66 |
| 8 | Breakthrough Moon 4:28 | 70 |
| 9 | There Is No Now 2:19 | 63 |
| 10 | Press My Luck 4:34 | 72 |
| 11 | A Fez 3:15 | 58 |
| 12 | Without An Ending 4:18 | 61 |
Total Length: 45 minutes
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Added on: June 1, 2023