Album Review: J. Laser Is J. Laser

MY PEOPLE! I love some psychedelia. Tame Impala has been integral to my personal playlist, but Kevin Parker makes an album as often as Haley’s Comet passes through our skies. Thus, I was left looking for bands that tap into the emotional side of a mindful trip. With J. Laser, I found a man who understands your mind doesn’t race unless your heart does, as well. With a psychedelic, self-titled debut, J.Laser makes sure you mark him as one to watch. 

At 5 tracks, the theme of J.Laser is dystopia and depression. Now, those two themes are incredibly dark, and it is hard not to imagine and funeral organ playing in the background. Yet, J.Laser makes this record feel like an observance of a galaxy. It is not cosmic as much as physics. I feel like i am hearing the theories on what makes star dim or shine, which makes sense as J.Laser’s debut is about confrontation, including one’s self. 
J. Laser – Orpheus

Like Becca Mancari’s release, The Greatest Part, it seems like J.Laser and her believe self-reflection is a quest equivalent to a rocket-ship aimed for space. They both twinkle and twilight their rhythms, while buzzing beats as undercurrents that are as dark as night. For them, life is a clash between good and evil, and J.Laser sees that clash as mythic, which is why he has a song to Orpheus. Yet, to be fair, every tracks plays like an epic, especially his songs such as, “Sunshine” and “Waves & Blades;” the latter two being self-reflective and based on his own internal discussion over what it is to be “small.”
J. Laser – Sunshine (Official Video)

We all are small: in the grand scheme of things. Yet, J.Laser’s journey has been about feeling universal in one’s smallness. You may not be the center of the universe, but you can still enjoy the world. Thus, in our interview, we discussed what led him to such a philosophy. Click Here for the interview and here to by J.Laser’s J.Laser on June 26.