Diandra Reviews It All

It’s Jim-ee finds the 25 year old producer, born James Harmon Stack, re-emerging with a project that transcends the dance floor and reaches beyond himself as a lone producer. The origins of the EP extend to early 2016 with each song representing a reaction to the end of a three year relationship, started and completed between New York and Jim-E’s new home in LA. If only I could produce such easy-listening from my own break-ups? Ugh! Yet, it is quite curious that Jim-E Stack ’s EP It’s Jim-ee feels so light and even “dancey” for being about the gut-wrenching end of a relationship he believed would be forever.

We all have gone through “break-ups”, and have had a few that even surprised us. Whether it was literal or emotional distance, we never thought that growing apart meant going apart, as well. In six tracks, Jim-E Stack’s shows that that heartache’s sounds can range from quiet to clubby. For all the yells and cries that you spew, tracks like, “Moments Noticed” and “Forgiven” appear like funkadelic dreams where each beat sounds like the dragged steps you make to “move forward”. Recuperating from heartache is not easy, and I am convinced that the reason we gets so hurt and audibly angry is because our heart feels silenced. We scream in counter reaction to feeling muted, and tracks like, “I Did The Best I Could” and “Dreamt” felt like the swirls of rhythms made to emanate the spiraling thoughts that come over us after a break-up. From what could I have done better to saying goodbye to your fantasies of you and your partner’s “best”, Jim-E Stack’s has created a distinct sound that makes love lost something to find on that dance-floor. It is hard not to groove the electro-soul beats of “Deadstream”, but once you understand the back-ground of this album’s inspiration, you grow to admire how Jim- E Stack’s has been able to produce nightlife songs off of a passed relationship that felt like a life, in itself. To be able to hear pain in such musical pleasure is a feat to marveled, and on August 4 on You Can Buy Jim- E Stack’s It’s Jim-ee Here.