Jan 07 2011
Pick of the Day: jj – “New Work”
I know very little about jj but I’m really liking the song “New Work” from their new mixtape album, Kills, which was released as a free gift from Sincerely Yours on Christmas Eve.
In Pitchfork’s new review, they comment that on “New Work,” “the duo takes the piano melody from Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” and makes it the chassis for a song about being young and starry-eyed elsewhere.” And admittedly, this dreamy, escapist feel riding on a relaxed, pedestrian beat is exactly what draws me in. I’m also a sucker for lines like “When we were seventeen / The sky was always tangerine / We ran through streets at night under the starlight / We ran through streets at night / When we were winning.”
You can check out the “New Work” MP3 and a review of the album at Pitchfork.