New Amsterdam Records is excited to share the video for “Patient Angel” from JOBS‘ upcoming album killer BOB sings, due June 30, 2015. The video premiered via PopMatters, who noted that “Somewhere underneath “Patient Angel“… there’s a simple pop song. Yet it’s buried beneath layers of latticework noise and bursts of dissonant asides, to the point that the song’s center, its core, becomes obfuscated by the band’s experimental leaps.” The “Patient Angel” video is available to stream or embed HERE. Watch a trailer video for the album HERE, and pre-order the album HEREvia Bandcamp.
Since forming in 2008, JOBS has quickly established itself as one of the most exciting new forces within the thriving experimental music scene in Brooklyn. Comprised of drummer Max Jaffe, bassist Rob Lundberg, and guitarist Dave Scanlon, the group (formerly known as Killer Bob) has set itself apart with its charged performances – dripping with intensity and wild spontaneity.
After a number of dark and thorny releases under their previous name, JOBS set out to record their new album killer BOB sings with a new approach. Enlisting the help of vocalist Daniel Ellis-Ferris(of Loft Opera) and multi-instrumentalist/producer Shannon Fields (Leverage Models, Stars Like Fleas, and Helado Negro), the band challenged themselves to embrace a more broad and inclusive sound world.
Integrating blasts of industrial noise with mechanically precise rhythms and pop structures, killer BOB sings showcases the band’s influences by way of their virtuosity. Vocals lay over ominously incisive guitar work and percussive textures that range from the unhealthily organic to the speechlessly robotic. Distorted grooves pull themselves out of these structures.
In the studio, the band worked in intensive bursts, for 12-16 hours a day. Fields pushed them to create more and more, giving each member nightly “homework” assignments, such as: “write a ballad and a pop hit.” The effect of all this work was to create a more honed and focused band, and – in fact – the resulting album can be heard as JOBS’ version of a tightly-constructed pop album – in a world where the fractured “Rhythm Changes” is a club banger and the haunting “Spriiiiiiiiing” a crooner ballad.
More than anything though, killer BOB sings is a supremely vital document of a band pushing itself to evolve and develop. In the words of one concertgoer, JOBS is “unstoppable” and while that may be true, killer BOB sings shows that the group can at least slow down long enough to capture that unstoppability in album form.
killer BOB sings was engineered, mixed, and mastered by D. James Goodwin at The Isokon inWoodstock, NY and produced by Shannon Fields. JOBS is Max Jaffe, Rob Lundberg, and Dave Scanlon.
killer BOB sings tracklist:
2. Esmerelda, The Last Queen of Fire Island
3. Threes
4. Spriiiiiiiiing
5. Rhythm Changes
6. Fed Well
7. Down To The Root
8. Fear May Be A Builder
