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For Patterson, that image translated into being trapped with the blues and mired in depression. But the name was also an homage to J.J. Cale, the Tulsa sound originator best known for his song “After Midnight.” Fittingly, Jaye Jayle’s music is best suited for those after midnight hours, when the house lights are dim, the air is thick with humidity and tobacco smoke, perceptions are chemically altered, and every note carries far more gravity. On his latest album, Don’t Let Your Love Life Let You Down, Patterson continues to mine his unique strain of the meditative blues while finally breaking the shackles of defeat and passing into a realm residing between Western stoicism and mystic wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTo understand how Jaye Jayle arrived at the way station of Don’t Let Your Love Life Let You Down, you must first trace the trail back to the project’s modest beginnings. The earliest Jaye Jayle releases were four 45s housed in dust jackets—the kind of relics you would expect to find shoved in the shoeboxes and milk crates at the back of vintage record stores. Etched into their grooves you’d find a sparse and cryptic spin on American roots music. Across the first two Jaye Jayle albums—House Cricks and Other Excuses to Get Out (2016) and No Trail and Other Unholy Paths (2018)—Patterson expanded the parameters of his sound. If you listened closely, you could hear the echoes of Louisville in the songs. There was the tension and dynamics of Slint, the hushed songwriting of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, and the repetitious minimalism of The Shipping News, yet it somehow didn’t seem tethered to any clear tradition. The big sea change came with Prisyn (2020). Over the course of an eleven-week tour, Patterson slowly constructed songs in GarageBand on his phone as a distraction from the mundane day-to-day schedule of life on the road. A portmanteau of prison and synthetic, Prisyn was a deliberate departure from his previous work’s organic nature and an embrace of the personal isolation that set in with the pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFor Don’t Let Your Love Life Get You Down, Patterson returned the full-band approach while taking the crucial lessons he learned from working onPrisyn. “I’d hit the point of finding rehearsing counterproductive,” Patterson says. “I felt I could make everything happen in the studio rather than endlessly writing as a group, only to not ever be able to get the songs feeling the way that I was hearing.” The songs were rendered in an unconventional manner. Over the course of a year, Patterson tracked the songs with his longtime live sound engineer Nick Roeder in a studio built in a converted day-care center. Guitar was tracked first. Longtime Jaye Jayle member Todd Cook laid down bass next. Drums followed, with the duties split between Chris Maggio and ongoing collaborator Neal Argabright. Patterson and returning Jaye Jayle member Corey Smith then overdubbed synthesizers. Even with all these layers in place, Patterson struggled to find a proper voicing for several songs, so he enlisted Patrick Shiroishi to play saxophone on “The Party of Redemption” and “When We Are Dogs.” He also invited Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy to provide the vocals to the latter, at which point all the pieces fell into place.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIt was a gradual and uncertain process, but Patterson was in a much different headspace than he’d been in the past, having come out on the other side of a dissolved marriage and a long period of instability and uncertainty. “I found peace in being accepting of the change. Rather than beating myself up emotionally to go through the divorce. I decided I need to be selfless and guide myself to a place of unconditional understanding and peace.” That openness and vulnerability shaped the music and tapped into something that no previous Jaye Jayle album has attained. “I wanted the songs to feel ‘devastatingly hopeful’... this is absolutely the most emotionally straightforward album I have made.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThat sense of triumph over adversity is immediately evident on album opener “Warm Blood and Honey”— a droning gospel song about a man reexamining his life while suspended in the air after jumping off a bridge. Despite the heavy nature of the lyrics, a sense of beauty and promise permeates the music. Patterson says the song is about turning away from suicidal thoughts and realizing that change is always an option. This sense of adversity and redemption can be heard across the album—from the odes to intimacy and unfortunate incompatibilities of “Black Diamonds and Bad Apples” and “When We Are Dogs” to the examinations of being stuck with the burden of the past and navigating change on “Tell Me Live” and “Waiting for the Life.” Like Leonard Cohen fronting some intermediary step between Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized, Don’t Let Your Love Life Get You Down, conjures an aura of psychedelic grace and enveloping warmth through its pairing of pensive baritone poetics and druggy gospel-infused blues.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the eight songs of Don’t Let Your Love Life Get You Down, Patterson and his cohorts take the old American singer-songwriter template and imbue it with a kaleidoscope of sonic textures culled from a half- century’s worth of fringe music. One of the most critical contributors to Jaye Jayle’s multi-dimensional sound comes from producer\/multi-instrumentalist Ben Chisholm (Chelsea Wolfe), who was brought into the fold to mix the album. “Ben and I made Prisyn together and I have had one of my favorite musical relationships of my life since then. I consider him the secret member of the band at this point,” Patterson says. “Ben’s ideas are modern and saturated with layers of sonic color. I always describe his mixing as plush, like a velvet landscape. He is a genius to my ears.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis aural grandeur reinforces the life-affirming radiance of Don’t Let Your Love Life Get You Down. Though Jaye Jayle retains the hypnotic repetition and austere instrumentation of their past, the added layers and saturation of sound intensifies the hallucinatory spirit and synesthesia delights only previously hinted at in their work. As with all Jaye Jayle records, it’s still best suited for the hours after midnight, but it now holds the promise of dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eUnder the moniker of Jaye Jayle, Louisville guitarist\/vocalist Evan Patterson has spent over a decade exploring the more abstract realms of the American singer-songwriter process. The name—a reference to a bluebird locked in a cage as a metaphor for being tethered to the blues’ pentatonic guitar style and forlorn subject matter—underscores Patterson’s esoteric relationship to browbeaten themes and old musical traditions. The three previous Jaye Jayle albums—House Cricks and Other Excuses to Get Out (2016), No Trail and Other Unholy Paths (2018) and Prisyn (2020)—found Jaye Jayle continuously experimenting with form and traversing a myriad of sonic trails. On his latest album, Don’t Let Your Love Life Let You Down, Patterson continues to push at the boundaries of American blues and folk traditions while breaking the shackles of defeat and passing into a realm residing between Western stoicism and mystic wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFor Don’t Let Your Love Life Get You Down, Patterson fused the electronic sound-design approach of Prisyn with the full-band dynamic of his earlier work. The songs were rendered in an unconventional manner. Over the course of a year, Patterson tracked guitar lines with his longtime live sound engineer Nick Roeder in a studio built in a converted day-care center. Longtime Jaye Jayle member Todd Cook laid down bass next. Drums followed, with the duties split between Chris Maggio and ongoing collaborator Neal Argabright. Patterson and returning Jaye Jayle member Corey Smith then overdubbed synthesizers. Saxophone (courtesy of Patrick Shiroishi) and vocals (including a guest appearance by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) came last.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIt was a gradual and uncertain process, but Patterson was in a much different headspace than he’d been in the past, having come out on the other side of a dissolved marriage and a long period of instability and uncertainty. “I found peace in being accepting of the change. Rather than beating myself up emotionally to go through the divorce. I decided I need to be selfless and guide myself to a place of unconditional understanding and peace.” That openness and vulnerability shaped the music and tapped into something that no previous Jaye Jayle album has attained. “I wanted the songs to feel ‘devastatingly hopeful,’” Patterson says.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLike Leonard Cohen fronting some intermediary step between Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized, Don’t Let Your Love Life Get You Down, conjures an aura of psychedelic grace and enveloping warmth through its pairing of pensive baritone poetics, druggy studio manipulations, and gospel-infused blues. Abetted by the production and mixing skills of Ben Chisholm (Chelsea Wolfe), Jaye Jayle takes the old American singer- songwriter template and imbues it with a kaleidoscope of synesthesia delights culled from a half-century’s worth of fringe music.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis aural grandeur reinforces the life-affirming radiance of Don’t Let Your Love Life Get You Down. Though Jaye Jayle retains the hypnotic repetition and austere instrumentation of their past, the added layers and saturation of sound intensifies the immersive hallucinatory spirit only previously hinted at in their work. 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It is perhaps rather fitting then that within a year his acoustic solo project had blossomed into a full band and a full-length album: 2016’s haunting post-punk, kraut-blues debut House Cricks and Other Excuses to Get Out.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBack to back North American tours that same year alongside alt-country originators Freakwater and avant-garde metal band Sumac began Jaye Jayle’s journey of sharing stages and creative spaces with artists from a plethora of musical genres and backgrounds, as the group also became the full-time backing band for American singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle on their first European venture. A product of the disparate yet defiant position that Jaye Jayle were carving out for themselves, the outfit’s second album, 2018’s ‘No Trails and Other Unholy Paths’ saw them dive deeper into a minimalist, art-rock abyss with David Lynch’s longtime sound engineer Dean Hurley at the helm.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSubsequent years saw Patterson perform over 400 shows across North America and Europe with Jaye Jayle, playing and recording guitar for Emma Ruth Rundle and fronting his longtime noise-rock group Young Widows. The liminal lifestyle and constant travelling inspired Patterson to compose what would become Jaye Jayle’s 2020 album, ‘Prisyn’, produced by Ben Chisolm (Chelsea Wolfe); an atmospheric and entirely electronic offering, true to the band’s genre-defiant form.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe band’s most recent full-length, 2023’s ‘Don’t Let Your Love Life Get You Down’ is a devastating yet heartburstingly hopeful response to Patterson’s unexpected divorce from now ex-wife and ex-collaborator Emma Ruth Rundle. Not so much a statement about the split but rather a desired outlook for an unknown future, against all odds ‘Don’t Let Your Love Life Get You Down’ finds light in the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJaye Jayle’s forthcoming fifth collection album, ‘After Alter’ is all of this and more. Raw remnants and lingering refrains from these pivotal moments are reframed to form a powerful reminder of what Jaye Jayle is and always has been: an unadulterated, unfiltered outlet for the sounds that pour out of Patterson’s mind at any given time or place. ‘After Alter’ is a document of the indecipherable, of feeting feelings dragged once again to the surface. Lead single and opening track ‘Father Fiction’, for example, dives headlong into the fables and factious ideologies of organised religion with a hardened gaze and a wry smile as rolling drums and repetitive discordant guitar refrains spiral ever down into the labyrinth of meaning and misinterpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElsewhere, ‘Fear Is Here’ sees Jaye Jayle facing up to day-to-day examples of how terrifying everything around us can become within an instant as the song’s truncated blues piano hook is pushed ever further, distorted over time into something strange and hideous whilst the crawling post-hardcore dirge of ‘A Blackout’ serves as a searing critique of the American Dream; a nameless, homeless protagonist worships the alluring glow of billboard ads from their bed in the dirt on the side of the highway.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSimultaneously both tracks five and eight though, the arresting ‘Bloody Me’ is Jaye Jayle’s dichotic, janiform identity made manifest. Written even before the band’s debut album was released, track five’s ‘Bloody Me’ is a bolshy, bass-driven punk rock retaliation to dressing up for Halloween because Patterson is always dressed for Halloween. Track eight’s ‘Bloody Me’ however, is a tender solo acoustic recording cut straight to wax at Third Man Records in Nashville, mere hours before Patterson saw Bob Dylan perform for the first time. Two sides of the same coin; one ferocious and snarling, the other plaintive and bare but both unapologetically Jaye Jayle.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eClosing with the formative acoustic recording that undoubtedly helped shape Patterson into the artist he is today, ‘After Alter’ also serves as a new beginning. By creatively exorcising these poignant moments, Jaye Jayle have opened themselves to even more inspiration and there is already much more to come. Co-released by Berlin’s Pelagic Records and Patterson’s new imprint Future Heart Works, ‘After Alter’ will follow a book of Patterson’s illustrations, ‘Songs Without Words Or Sound’, as well as a fully live, and equally mercurial, Jaye Jayle album.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFOR FANS OF\u003cbr\u003eLeonard Cohen fronting Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, JJ Cale, Lungfish, Angels of Light, Young Widows\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jaye Jayle","offers":[{"title":"Help Editon","offer_id":51709312467222,"sku":"617911","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Doctor Green Edition","offer_id":51709312499990,"sku":"617912","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/8939\/4966\/files\/d9117e575345d944de99f9288cf120fc.png?v=1786646908"},{"product_id":"jaye-jayle-after-alter-cd","title":"Jaye Jayle \"After Alter\" CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eLouisville, Kentucky-based musician and artist Evan Patterson never planned for JAYE JAYLE to blossom from a stripped-down solo project into the otherworldly, full-band sonic experience that it is today. 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It is perhaps rather fitting then that within a year his acoustic solo project had blossomed into a full band and a full-length album: 2016’s haunting post-punk, kraut-blues debut House Cricks and Other Excuses to Get Out.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBack to back North American tours that same year alongside alt-country originators Freakwater and avant-garde metal band Sumac began Jaye Jayle’s journey of sharing stages and creative spaces with artists from a plethora of musical genres and backgrounds, as the group also became the full-time backing band for American singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle on their first European venture. A product of the disparate yet defiant position that Jaye Jayle were carving out for themselves, the outfit’s second album, 2018’s ‘No Trails and Other Unholy Paths’ saw them dive deeper into a minimalist, art-rock abyss with David Lynch’s longtime sound engineer Dean Hurley at the helm.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSubsequent years saw Patterson perform over 400 shows across North America and Europe with Jaye Jayle, playing and recording guitar for Emma Ruth Rundle and fronting his longtime noise-rock group Young Widows. The liminal lifestyle and constant travelling inspired Patterson to compose what would become Jaye Jayle’s 2020 album, ‘Prisyn’, produced by Ben Chisolm (Chelsea Wolfe); an atmospheric and entirely electronic offering, true to the band’s genre-defiant form.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe band’s most recent full-length, 2023’s ‘Don’t Let Your Love Life Get You Down’ is a devastating yet heartburstingly hopeful response to Patterson’s unexpected divorce from now ex-wife and ex-collaborator Emma Ruth Rundle. Not so much a statement about the split but rather a desired outlook for an unknown future, against all odds ‘Don’t Let Your Love Life Get You Down’ finds light in the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJaye Jayle’s forthcoming fifth collection album, ‘After Alter’ is all of this and more. Raw remnants and lingering refrains from these pivotal moments are reframed to form a powerful reminder of what Jaye Jayle is and always has been: an unadulterated, unfiltered outlet for the sounds that pour out of Patterson’s mind at any given time or place. ‘After Alter’ is a document of the indecipherable, of feeting feelings dragged once again to the surface. Lead single and opening track ‘Father Fiction’, for example, dives headlong into the fables and factious ideologies of organised religion with a hardened gaze and a wry smile as rolling drums and repetitive discordant guitar refrains spiral ever down into the labyrinth of meaning and misinterpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eElsewhere, ‘Fear Is Here’ sees Jaye Jayle facing up to day-to-day examples of how terrifying everything around us can become within an instant as the song’s truncated blues piano hook is pushed ever further, distorted over time into something strange and hideous whilst the crawling post-hardcore dirge of ‘A Blackout’ serves as a searing critique of the American Dream; a nameless, homeless protagonist worships the alluring glow of billboard ads from their bed in the dirt on the side of the highway.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSimultaneously both tracks five and eight though, the arresting ‘Bloody Me’ is Jaye Jayle’s dichotic, janiform identity made manifest. Written even before the band’s debut album was released, track five’s ‘Bloody Me’ is a bolshy, bass-driven punk rock retaliation to dressing up for Halloween because Patterson is always dressed for Halloween. Track eight’s ‘Bloody Me’ however, is a tender solo acoustic recording cut straight to wax at Third Man Records in Nashville, mere hours before Patterson saw Bob Dylan perform for the first time. Two sides of the same coin; one ferocious and snarling, the other plaintive and bare but both unapologetically Jaye Jayle.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eClosing with the formative acoustic recording that undoubtedly helped shape Patterson into the artist he is today, ‘After Alter’ also serves as a new beginning. By creatively exorcising these poignant moments, Jaye Jayle have opened themselves to even more inspiration and there is already much more to come. 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