Though no longer based in Sydney’s Inner West, jobfit’s music continues to hold space for those who traverse its parks, pubs and parties.
For their third release on Pure Space, jobfit share their new EP ‘time to make Daddy some money’.
Full of swirling synths, deep bass and acidic tastes, this EP continues jobfit’s splicing together of poetry and dance music. Where crisp percussion arrests tension, immersive pads hold you in - releasing only to rebuild again and again.
This release/rebuild is the perfect support for the vocals. Written between Sydney’s two lockdowns, the EP is a woozy state of inertia. There are sneaks of escape - outta Sydney, on the street, in the studio. But there’s also a state of being trapped - in the kitchen, in the Poet, in the interior. Both inSide and inSelf. The vocalist always uneasy, knowing what could come. And then it does: ‘Collar Mourning’ rounds us out for another stretch between “four walls and 34 square metres / captures and holds”.
Yet there are always moments of respite, a settling into place, making peace, the “alla norma”. It’s dance music for those stuck at home! For driving! For traversing space and time, beer belly wriggling into jeans, lurching up Newtown’s drunken pipeline, reminiscing on times connecting, over there, or there, or there… “smiling, and knowing and turning still.”
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released October 7, 2022
Art by @pd_sky
Mastered by Wayne Sutherland @ Suture
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