“I was like, I want to make music like this for a while and see what happens,” Jagos explains. When he released the track as a one-off in spring 2021, new fans and longtime listeners were smitten by its unselfconscious optimism, by its throwback, feel-good energy. Armed with a wacky new vocabulary of sounds, Jagos wrote “Dancer on the Water,” an elegant, up-tempo coastal fantasy with lustrous synths and pan flute flourishes. That changed after he scoured eBay for vintage gear, impulsively snagging some sophisti-pop-era synths and samplers manufactured by a now-defunct company called Ensoniq. Like a lot of artistic city-dwellers, Jagos spent the early days of the pandemic in a restless state. But it’s also an introduction to a playful new era for a songwriter whose synthpop has often skewed broody and introspective. After spending time with the record’s maximalist soundscapes, and after hearing Jagos discuss the deeply personal creativity that fueled the production, it’s easy to understand his thinking: the Brothertiger LP is a testament to Jagos’ technical gifts, a polished culmination of his ambitious experiments and nostalgic obsessions. Still, Jagos decided to give his newest album the self-titled treatment, a move typically reserved for an artist’s debut project.
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Jagos has released four full-lengths under the Brotheriger alias, a figure that doesn’t even account for multiple EPs, a Tears for Fears cover album, or his four-volume series of livestreamed improvisations called Fundamentals. It might be the most impressive set of songs that Jagos has ever made. Brothertiger’s take on the style is pure escapism - immaculately engineered, retro-leaning songs for romantic vagabonds and urbane daydreamers alike. Brothertiger, moving through his chillwave roots and into the refined glitz of sophisti-pop, a UK-born microgenre that owes its ’80s and ’90s heyday to key releases by groups like Prefab Sprout and Scritti Politti.
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These are just a few of the images conjured by Brothertiger, the stunning new album from the Brooklyn-based electronic artist of the same name.Ĭollecting a handful of singles released over the past year and a half, plus several unheard tracks, the album sees John Jagos, a.k.a. The big round sun, shimmering over a distant horizon. A windows-down car ride through the desert.
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