Jjulius – Vol. 2 LP (MARKDOWN) For Discount

Needle drop and a floaty, child-like piano line sucks you into the post-punk papier-mâché world of JJULIUS, where everyone speaks Swedish, listens to Young Marble Giants and eats nothing but Twizzlers. Vol. 2 is, perhaps obviously, a continuation of the world-building done on Vol. 1, which is a little more raw, a little wilder in spirit and sold out at both source and every record store that managed to get it s hand on a copy. It will also re-arrive this summer on DFA this summer with it s successor. JJULIUS is the nom de plume of Gotebörg s Julius Pierstorff, who, with his wife Elin Engström aka Loopsel, also records as Monokultur and runs the tiny label Mamma s Mysterious Jukebox. The music they make both together and separately is entirely their own, with it s own rules of what instruments come and go; when a song begins and ends or swells into oblivion. And yet! It s also referencing all the records we love and know – Suicide, all the no wave stuff, Faust, Can, Sonic Youth, and even contemporary local peers like Mathaverskan. Buy the ticket, take the trip.