“I like writing songs that have a duality, a complexity of feeling that takes you to a melancholy, reflective space,” says Jai Wolf.
This all converges to create an emotional complexity to the music that cuts deeper than the average festival fare. The sunny melodies and bombastic hooks bely subject matter that often ruminates on loneliness, distance, and a lack of place.
It’s that quality that takes center stage on The Cure to Loneliness, as he slips between references to cultural moments with an ephemeral quality tinged with nostalgia. The album is available everywhere April 5th,īorn in Bangladesh, raised in New York City, inspired by everything from indie-punk to hip-hop, orchestral symphonies and the Bollywood classics of his parents, Jai Wolf’s life and music have been defined by a liminal quality that only a third culture kid could understand. The result is a thoughtfully framed, confidently expressed musical vision that will tug at heartstrings in 2019 and long beyond. “From the sounds to the lyrics, it’s everything that I’ve always wanted to do.” While the dance music world becomes more ubiquitous, Jai Wolf has taken a different approach under the wing of indie darling label Mom+Pop (Courtney Barnett, Flume, Jagwar Ma, Alina Baraz), largely eschewing singles to focus on patiently crafting The Cure to Loneliness over the course of the past two years. “In my heart, this album is me,” says Jai Wolf, better known to some as Sajeeb Saha. While still very much a dancefloor-focused endeavor, some tracks on the debut conjure the angular songs of The Strokes and Phoenix, while weaving melodies through the sugary happysad of M83 and CHVRCHES, and throw up walls of sound touched by Explosions in the Sky -all while maintaining the melodious polish and evocative groove to which fans around the world have grown so close. The Cure to Loneliness finds Jai Wolf completing his evolution from upstart bedroom remixer to future bass DJ to dream pop artist and builder of lush musical worlds. After hundreds of millions of streams on astral- indie-dance anthems like “Indian Summer” and “Starlight,” blockbuster festival sets from Indio to India, and regular co-signs from the likes of Skrillex and ODESZA, it’s clear from the opening notes of Jai Wolf’s long-awaited debut album The Cure to Loneliness that he uses the expectations around his name as an opportunity to challenge convention. You don’t know Jai Wolf like you think you do. All ages are welcome.Īdditional ticketing and venue information can be found here. Ticketsare on sale now at The Top Hat, online or by phone at 1 (800) 514-3849. All tickets are general admission standing room only. Listen to “Lost” below.Logjam Presents is pleased to welcome Jai Wolf live in concert at The Wilma on May 06, 2019. We’re excited to hear all the new music that Jai Wolf is bound to drop on us throughout the end of the year and into 2019. This song is about that cycle and our desire to escape it.”Īfter such a long hiatus, “Lost” feels like the dam breaking. Even when you might think you’ve found your way, your perspective might shift and you may feel lost again. “Feeling lost is something that never necessarily goes away. “Chelsea and I wrote this song as sort of an anthem for a generation of kids who feel disillusioned by the world around them,” said Jai Wolf.
Jai Wolf returns in 2018 with “Lost,” which he says is special to him because it “is the perfect bridge between my old music and where I want to go next.” Working with Chelsea Jade, “Lost” is an anthem for the those who maybe aren’t sure of where they are in life or where they want to be. But we’ve still been missing his sultry tones. At the same time, Billboard named Jai Wolf one of Dance Music’s Top 100 Electronic Music Artists in the world for 2018. In the time since, he’s played major festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Electric Forest, all while selling over 25,000 tickets to his headlining “Kindred Spirits” U.S Tour. It’s been 16 months since Jai Wolf’s last single, “Starlight,” in 2017.