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Jay Som is back with her first new album in six years. Belong is out October 10 via Polyvinyl. For the follow-up to 2019’s Anak Ko, Melina Duterte tapped Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Mini Trees’ Lexi Vega, and Jimmy Eat World’s Jim Adkins to contribute guest vocal turns.
Today, Duterte has shared two songs from the album: the Adkins-featuring “Float” and “A Million Reasons Why.” Watch the Nina Ljeti–directed music video for “Float,” which pays homage to Jimmy Eat World’s timeless “The Middle” clip, below. Hear “A Million Reasons Why” below, too.
“This song is about desperately trying to hold on to past versions of yourself for self preservation,” Duterte said of “Float” in a press statement. “The fear of the unknown is so overwhelming that sometimes the best solution is to sit with it instead of fighting or running from it.”
Since the release of Anak Ko, Duterte has collaborated with Troye Sivan, Anjimile, and, as Bachelor, Palehound’s El Kempner. She also worked as a producer and engineer on Boygenius’ The Record and Lucy Dacus’ Forever Is a Feeling and contributed to the soundtrack for Jane Schoenbrun’s film I Saw the TV Glow.
After supporting Dacus on tour this summer, Duterte will kick off her own run of headlining dates across Europe, North America and the United Kingdom, including stops at Pitchfork Music Festival Paris and Pitchfork Music Festival London. Find all of Jay Som’s upcoming shows below.
Read about Jay Som’s 2017 album, Everybody Works, at No. 165 in “The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s.”
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01 Cards on the Table
02 Float [ft. Jim Adkins]
03 What You Need
04 Appointments
05 Drop A
06 Past Lives [ft. Hayley Williams]
07 D.H.
08 Casino Stars
09 Meander/Sprouting Wings
10 A Million Reasons Why
11 Want It All
Jay Som:
07-25 Philadelphia, PA - FDR Park *^
07-26 Columbus, OH - Kemba Live! *
07-27 Milwaukee, WI - Riverside Theater *
07-29 Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple Theater *
07-30 Lewiston, NY - Artpark Mainstage Theater *
08-02 Shelburne, VT - The Green at Shelburne Museum *
08-08 Troutdale, OR - Edgefield Amphitheater *
08-09 Boise, ID - Morrison Center *
08-10 Carnation - WA - Remlinger Farms *
08-12 Vancouver, British Columbia - Queen Elizabeth Theatre *
08-13 Vancouver, British Columbia - Queen Elizabeth Theatre *
08-16 Berkeley, CA - The Greek Theatre *
10-31-11-01 Amsterdam, Netherlands - London Calling Festival
11-03 Berlin, Germany - Kantine am Berghain
11-05 Paris, France - Pitchfork Music Festival Paris
11-06 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique
11-08 London, England - Pitchfork Music Festival London
11-23 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey
12-02 Austin, TX - The Parish
12-03 Dallas, TX - Club Dada
12-05 Atlanta, GA - Aisle 5
12-08 Washington, D.C. - The Atlantis
12-09 Philadelphia, PA - Foundry
12-11 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw
12-12 Pittsburgh, PA - Spirit Hall
12-13 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
12-14 Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line
* with Lucy Dacus
^ with Hop Along
Not for the first time, Moby is speaking out against Donald Trump’s administration with clear frustration.
“The U.S. is collapsing under a deeply corrupt and shockingly ineffective administration,” the longtime electronic musician shared on social media. “These are unbelievably dark times.”
Moby went deeper into his thoughts through a video message, where he explained that people outside the United States keep asking Americans what is actually happening in the country.
“So many of my friends outside the United States keep asking me, ‘what the hell is happening over there?’ And honestly, we don’t even know,” he said. “The country is being controlled by one of the most corrupt, dangerous and incompetent administrations imaginable. Nobody fully understands what’s happening right now. These are very dark times in America.”
Moby joins a growing list of artists publicly criticizing Trump and MAGA politics, including Bruce Springsteen, Jack White, Eminem and Billie Eilish.
Earlier this year, Moby uploaded another statement to social media where he addressed how people should respond following the killing of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis. “The real question isn’t whether people should feel horrified or outraged by what’s happening in the United States,” Moby explained in the Jan. 26 clip. “The question is what are we actually going to do about it?”
The musician and activist also encouraged people to protest, saying demonstrations are a constitutional right and something he believes Trump’s administration is attempting to weaken.
In the end, he urged people to vote regularly, “not only during the upcoming midterms, even though those matter, but also in every special election throughout the year.” He also encouraged supporters to “stop giving money to the scumbag corporations backing Trump and ICE. We all know who they are. Boycott them.”
His newest remarks arrive as the U.S. Justice Department unveils a nearly $1.8 billion compensation fund for Trump allies who claim they were unfairly investigated. At the same time, the Strait of Hormuz remains shut down following military action launched by the U.S. and Israel against Iran in late February without approval from Congress, leading to rising gas prices across the globe.
Throughout his independent music career, Moby has earned 10 entries on the Billboard 200 along with two songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and an enormous catalog of sync placements. Overseas, particularly in the United Kingdom, he is viewed as one of the defining artists of his era. He scored two No. 1 albums there with Play from 1999 and 18 from 2002, alongside 18 top 40 singles and two nominations for Best International Male at the BRIT Awards.
Check out Moby’s newest social media post below.
