JJULIUS - Vol.3In the discourse around new albums from singular, world building artists, the phrase a big step forward can often be a blinking red warning sign. You know youre about to be pulled somewhere new against your will. Inertia is a hell of a thing. Its nice here. Surely, the partys not over yet? JJULIUS Vol. 3 album is a big step forward, or a step up, out of the murky basement of the preceding two volumes. Theres no time to acclimate. A spindly violin

A live version of the ‘Emperor Tomato Ketchup’ album track ‘Cybele's Reverie’

which also serves as the first single released from this album

Elsewhere other highlights include the slinky poignancy that lingers from every spacious bass pluck on "City Lights" and the trembling ambience and pressurised atmosphere of the finale "Sanctuary"

all packaged in the album’s original artwork

overheated psychedelic guitar runs that fill much of the material on the mystery man's album

White Paper inners

and a plane crash with the duo superimposed over it

well beyond the tightly-knit scene’s original core

Thoughts of mortality and the idea of the light must have been playing on our minds a lot

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‘Tropic Morning News’ and the boundary pushing ‘Smoke Detector’

Eddy Current Suppression Ring harnesses tension and propulsion to blast past the barriers of everyday tedium