JVLY Comes Through With Some Smooth Lo-Fi Vibes On “monsoon”

JVLY delivers some smooth and soulful sounds with hint of funk.

Australian artist JVLY shared a pair of tranquil tracks last year that had me wanting more and now he’s delivered. The “tacenda” singer and producer came through with some serious soul today. Mixed and mastered by cln, “monsoon” is a lo-fi jam worth dancing to. It’s got vibes reminiscent of Still Woozy and overall sultry feel.

RELATED: JVLY Delivers Crisp New Single “me&her”

JVLY had a very specific vision in mind for this one, one that he spoke a bit about:

“I’ve had this concept in mind for a while, but I’d never written anything fitting enough for the mood I was trying to capture. I like the idea of how feeling kind of forlorn can be made to seem less heavy on you by hearing a song you connect with or relate to. So that was kind of the idea, I wanted to capture that gloomy feeling, but at the same time still create a mood that helps you to see that it’s probably going to be all good.”

You can find “monsoon” from JVLY on our Tasty! Jams playlists.

The Tasty! Jams From July

A jam filled July.

 

July made it pretty hard to try and choose a song of the summer. With so many incredible releases, like new albums from Cuco, Blood Orange, and YBN Cordae, some tunes got lost in the shuffle. So here’s a quick roundup of all of last month’s jams, which you can find on our Tasty! Jams playlists.

We kicked things off with the Dreamville collaborative album, featuring J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, DaBaby, JID, and so, so many more. Then Dominic Fike and Kenny Beats hit us with “Phone Numbers” before Post Malone and Young Thug teamed for “Goodbyes.” We got a new album from JADEN, some Tasty! Jams from No Suits, Ohmfield, and quickly, quickly, as well as a new album from Hibou and a collaborative track from filous and Ashe. We also saw the return of dvsn and some big names like Bon Iver, Bonobo, and Sebastian. JVLY came through with a chill new single and Hippo Campus shared a pair of demo albums. FARR covered “Bulletproof,” warner case shared another deep house banger and we got some wavy new indie tracks from White Cliffs, Havelock and Yellow Days. We got new albums from Palace and Tuxedo, new jams from PB&GJ favorites Easy Life, Ocean Heights, Verzache, Goldwash, Four Tet and More Giraffes, and jams from some new faces like Alexandra, Jarami, Summer Salt, Poolside, PINES and AUGUST 08. Now, we can’t forget about the Queen! Beyoncé shared her new Lion King album and we also got new albums from Rich Brian and Chance The Rapper. Closing us out, we also featured new tunes from Papooz, La Felix, Cosmo’s Midnight, slenderbodies, Sweater Beats, Nick Dorian, Ashe, Louis Mattrs, Slow Magic, LeyeT, Caius, Zanski, OTR and so many more.

Find everything on our Tasty! Jams playlists and check out some of the Tasty! Jams from July that we haven’t featured on the site yet:

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Summer Salt – “Honeyweed”

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Poolside, Panama – “Can’t Stop Your Lovin'”

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Abhi The Nomad – “House of Clocks (feat. Harrison Sands)”

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Greg Wanders – “Hourglass”

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Joe Hertz – “One Sided (feat. Kaleem Taylor)”

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Caius, EAUXMAR – “Away From You”

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NASAYA, Sara Diamond – “PATTERNS”

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Fabich, SAINT WKND – “Elevation”

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No Suits – “Sue”

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Sweater Beats – “Take Me To Eterna”

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JVLY Delivers Crisp New Single “me&her”

Co-produced by DRKTMS.

 

The newest release form JVLY is the chillingly smooth new single “me&her” off Mammal Sounds Records. Following his last Tasty! Jam, “tacenda,” the Australian artist gives us a further look at his upcoming sophomore EP. Teaming with DRKTMS on the production side for this one, the song feels incredibly full and compelling. As light vinyl scratches ring consistently in the background throughout the track you’ll be carried out to sea on a lo-fi wave.

Speaking a bit about the creation of the song, JVLY said “I had just pretty much cut my arm off to get this amazing analogue synth and was fiddling with it when I came up with these sounds and this chord progression. Honestly, I wasn’t really trying to write a song at the time as I was just learning the ins and outs of designing sounds on this thing, and that’s when I hatched that pulsing synth that runs throughout the song.” And on his inspiration for the track he added, “I’ve been listening to a lot of dream-pop lately like Men I Trust so I’m really into rich sounding synths. I sent ‘me&her’ to my friend Luca (DRKTMS) who slowed the whole thing down to a much smoother tempo and added some really nice touches to the song. It was cool collaborating with him on the vocal ideas as well, bouncing ideas back and forth before finding a good blend of our own perspectives.”

You can find “me&her” from JVLY and DRKTMS on our Tasty! Jams playlists for July.

The Tasty! Jams From March

The musical March Madness is finally over.

With an absolutely insane amount of songs on our playlist this month, more than double the amount of days in March, it’s going to be quite a time trying to recap the month. We saw album releases from Solange, Pond, 2 Chainz, josh pan, Billie Eilish, DaBaby, and Flume (mixtape, whatever) and EP drops from Dijon, Easy Life, Cautious Clay, The Kite String Tangle, and APRE. On top of all of that we got the first new music in years from Tame Impala, Schoolboy Q, Four Tet, and Mac DeMarco, several new songs from Tierra Whack, album announcements from DeMarco, Nick Murphy / Chet Faker, Anderson .Paak, Khalid, Diplo, and twice as many EP announcements.

Below are some of our favorite singles from the last month, but that’s not to take away from any of the nearly 70 incredible tracks on the Tasty! Jams playlists for March.

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 Moods – “Where I Met You”

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Dijon – “Drunk”

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Andrew Applepie — “Salted Caramel”

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Franc Moody — “She’s Too Good For Me”

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Mating Ritual — U.N.I.

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Patawawa — “All The Time”

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Erik Sing — “Bittersweet Boy (feat. Maria Elena Little)”

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Goldwash – “You Don’t Wanna Feed the Fire Anymore”

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CAPYAC — “Ceasefire (feat. Cool Company)”

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Keelan Mak — “Warm Blooded”

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 Ocean Heights — Kinda Love

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Flume – “Friends (feat. Reo Cragun)”

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JVLY Brought The Waves On “tacenda”

Tacenda (n.) – things better left unsaid, matters passed over in silence.

 

Australian producer JVLY came through big time with this smooth new jam — giving us the first taste of his upcoming EP. The slow build at the start of the song sets JVLY up perfectly to come in with his longingly seductive vocals as the soundscape fills up. Speaking on “tacenda” JVLY said “This is the first song I finished for a new EP I’ve been writing called Wild Onsen Echoes. It’s always taken me a long time to finish songs, just dwelling on them even if things aren’t flowing or working out and I think that ends up being a pretty toxic way to create. You get tired of it before you finish and then it’s lost. Lately I’ve been writing a lot of new ideas and if it doesn’t come all that naturally I’m just leaving it to the side. It seems to turn out more organic that way.” Continuing on to say “‘tacenda’ is one of those songs that came together pretty painlessly. It means ‘things that are better left unsaid’. I find that building the music into an environment of sounds that trigger or inspire a single line or a story is the best way to write. I think it’s kind of backwards, but it works like that for me.”

You can find “tacenda” from JVLY on our Tasty! Jams playlists for March.