SPILL MUSIC PREMIERE: JEEN – “SO WHAT”

JEEN – “SO WHAT”

A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE

Jeen unveils “So What”, the emotional centrepiece and final single from Gold Control, her record out on February 2nd. Jeen joins creative forces once again with long-time collaborator Canadian indie musician and producer Ian Blurton who has taken the role of co-producer on Jeen’s last five albums. “Can you stay another minute, sit me on the couch, talk to me until I pass out, and if I had it my way, I’d lie there and that’s where we’d stay, don’t wake me up,” she sings. Its hazy dream-like longing for connection is relatable as Jeen’s softer vocals gently guide the listener along through the moment as if taking them by hand. “It’s about never-ending uphill battles,” she shares about the energetic, pop-leaning track, “and wishing you could freeze time to stay with someone you can’t enough of.”

ARTIST BIO

An established and successful songwriter with a penchant for crafting hooky, sync-worthy songs, Jeen has penned songs with many recording artists including Great Big Sea, Serena Ryder, Res, Hawksley Workman, Brendan Canning, FUWA FUWA (j-pop) and Martin “Doc” McKinney. The talented Toronto-based artist was the vocalist and co-writer for the Cookie Duster LP When Flying Was Easy before releasing her solo LP Tourist in 2014 which, along with her sophomore LP Modern Life in 2016, Gift Shop in 2018, JEEN in 2020, Dog Bite in 2021, and Tracer in 2022, have resulted in significant sync success with song placements in various commercials as well as notable movies and television shows.

ALBUM OVERVIEW

Gold Control is hazy, heady, hedonistic and hopeful. The luminous ten tracker is her fourth album this decade, gliding along the same trajectory as its predecessors while maintaining its own identity. Grunge. Garage. Psych-rock. Punk. Tinges of Shoegaze. Her influences continue to shine as she crafts them into her own vehicle with ease. Despite the lyric “It’s all I got inside me,” lead single “Just Shadows” is a firm foot forward, its quick frantic pace bouncing along and transporting the listener to those communal sweaty nights in dodgy body-packed underground clubs with the band five feet away making all feel as one. The lyrically confrontational “Making Me Mad” bounds along proudly with two fingers firmly up and an assured sense of one’s older self. On “Hold My Head Up Higher” (feat. Ian Blurton), their strength in working together shines, its swirling chorus shimmers along the flesh and induces frisson with ease. Other moments where Jeen really shines include “Good Omen” which crashes about the primal highway in all its fuzzy glory, “Give Myself Away” with its dark, ethereal howling echoes and “Rain Low” which finds itself adding a more vulnerable and delicate layer to the album. It’ll be raucous and aggressive at some points and harmonious at others with promises of a soft landing.

ARTIST QUOTE

“It’s a alt-pop song about never-ending uphill battles and wishing you could freeze time to stay with someone you can’t get enough of. I wrote this track in 2022 after a relentless couple years.” ~JEEN

JEEN
Gold Control
(Independent)
Release Date: February 2, 2024

Gold Control Track Listing

1. Fade And Fading
2. Pour Your Heart
3. Just Shadows
4. Rain Low
5. So What
6. Give Myself Away
7. Good Omen
8. Hold My Head Up Higher (feat. Ian Blurton)
9. Making Me Mad
10. I Can Explain

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