Jams and Tea

This week’s Record Club is an impromptu episode we decided to make to honour the great Taylor Hawkins in light of his tragic and untimely passing over the weekend. Here, we discuss the album that saw his debut with Foo Fighters, and the album that to us stands as their definitive statement as a band, and a record we feel is curiously underrated even now, 23 years on.

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In this week’s main episode of Jams & Tea, Jake, Morgan, and Ryley are joined by regular guest Jakob to discuss the explosive new albums from art-pop mastermind Charli XCX and sophisti-pop mainstay Destroyer!  With her new record CRASH, Charli attempts to weave together her various eras of friendly and esoteric pop music, but how well does she succeed? In Destroyer’s case, Dan Bejar uses new LP LABYRINTHITIS as an excuse to up the BPMs and make a full on disco rock record, with hooks and pulses for days!

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This week on Record Club, Ryley, Connor, and first-time guest Brett discuss an emo classic from the Birmingham scene of the late 2000s, Johnny Foreigner’s Waited Up til It Was Light. Fans of Los Campesinos or Bloc Party will love this hidden gem, so join us as we discuss everything that makes it special, the lineage of music that it follows in, and why we think it’s one of the best emo records you will ever hear.

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In this week’s main episode of Jams & Tea, Jake and Ryley are joined by regular guest Connor and first-time guest Brett to discuss the absolutely killer new album from Ghost, IMPERA, which sees the band continuing their move away from their heavy metal roots into a goofy and glorious brand of AOR-esque hard rock that is an absolute delight to rock out to. Also on the agenda is the catchy and propulsive new record from indie rock mastermind Nilüfer Yanya, PAINLESS! We also give shout outs to new records from Benny the Butcher, Alex Cameron, and Immolation, plus Jake gets into Aphex Twin, Brett gets into Xiu Xiu, and Connor continues his deep dive into Big Thief!

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This week on Record Club, Ryley, Connor, and Morgan celebrate the 20th anniversary of Coheed and Cambria’s landmark 2002 emo / post-hardcore classic, The Second Stage Turbine Blade! We dive into the intense, fast-paced and blistering musical style of the record, frontman Claudio Sanchez’s idiosyncratic vocals and dense storytelling lore, and how the record would set the stage for many more progressive rock and metal staples that would follow.

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For episode 81 of Jams & Tea, we are taking a break from new releases for our first pure discussion format episode with all four of us, where we each put forward one of our absolute favourite EPs to discuss, break down, and rate, while discussing what makes the EP format unique and important.

0:00 Intro 2:46 FKA twigs - M3L155X 24:53 Autechre - Garbage 44:30 Saosin - Translating the Name 1:09:04 Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies

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This week on Record Club, Ryley and Morgan celebrate the 30th anniversary of Faith No More’s landmark 1992 epic, Angel Dust, the moment where the alt metal band expanded the ambition of their sound under the leadership of the manic mastermind Mike Patton, fresh off the first Mr. Bungle record…

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In this week’s episode, we are thrilled to discuss the long-awaited follow-up to one of our favourite albums of all time, the bombastic, deeply emotional, and highly conceptual new third record from Gang of Youths, ANGEL IN REALTIME. Join us as we dig deep into everything that makes this album a remarkable triumph and one of the most original albums of the year, and why it deserves the biggest audience possible. Also on the slab today: we discuss the music of Rob Zombie, astonishing two-hour opuses from Harold Budd and Panopticon, the worst song of the year so far, the return of Tears for Fears, the best shoegaze album you’ve never heard, and much more!

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Today Jake and Ryley are celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of the most influential folk records ever made, Nick Drake’s final masterpiece PINK MOON. Join us as we reflect on the spare, intimate songwriting and far-reaching legacy of this wonderful album.

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This week on Record Club, Jake and Ryley celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first of many masterpieces from legendary singer-songwriter John Darnielle’s The Mountain Goats, All Hail West Texas. Together we break down everything that makes Darnielle such a great and moving storyteller, how he paints such vivid characters that have lived on in the minds of listeners across two decades, and the unique point in the trajectory of the band that this album represents.

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