Yes, their CD-R has been out since 2008. Yes, they scored a "Best New Music" stamp of approval from P4K. Yes, their mixtape Jamz n Jemz is one of the best releases to get attention this summer. Their name is Javelin. Yes, they're good.
Who is Javelin? They're a New York duo made up of George Langford and Tom Van Buskirk. Together they produce an electronic pastiche of schizphrenic styles, from disco to R&B and new wave to hip-hop.
Their aforementioned CD-R mixtape, Jamz n Jemz, is aptly titled; as their surpirsingly well-written Pitchfork review states, "almost every [song] a gem, many of them certifiable jams."
I hesitate to refer to the collection of songs as an album. Twenty-five tracks long with only three floating above the two-minute mark, the collection is no more than a mixtape. Jumping frequently between musical styles, every song is an instrumental genre stab lacking any sort of sonic cohesion.
While this fosters a fragmented and seemingly random listening experience, the band's stylistic cut-and-paste playfulness is their strong suit. Whether its the summer pop of "Vibrationz" or the
electroclash-inspired (and fantastic) "STD Fury," the duo manages to produce songs that warrant more than a few repeat listens.
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Vibrationz - Javelin
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