Portland, Oregon-based musician Graham Jonson started early: playing piano as a toddler, finding the music of J Dilla in fifth grade, and self-releasing singles by age 16. First appearing under the name quickly, quickly in 2017, his project’s profile has since grown fervently with fans in the ‘chill beats’-oriented corners of SoundCloud, YouTube, and Reddit. Some of his early tracks tally north of 10 million plays on Spotify. The figure isn’t meant to flex as much as it is to point out that Jonson’s work has resonated without the traditional industry levers; he is a wunderkind DIY internet success story, but, by his own assessment at the present age of 20, he’s only now getting serious.
Tracklist
1. Phases (ft. Sharrif Simmons)
2. Come Visit Me
3. Interlude
4. Shee
5. Leave It
6. I Am Close to the River
7. Feel
8. A Conversation
9. Everything is Different (To Me)
10. Wy
11. Otto's Dance
With The Long And Short Of It, his Ghostly International debut, Jonson reinvents his project as a full-fledged songwriter, vocalist, and arranger, playing nearly everything from drums to keys and guitar. The resulting sound straddles jazz, hip hop, R&B, and psych-pop while suggesting a wholly genre-less path forward. Recorded during and after a short-lived move to Los Angeles, songs find Jonson cool and comfortable, navigating the planes between anxiety and apathy, distance and desire with lyrical vulnerability and introspection.A student of the Stones Throw catalog (his favourite is Madlib’s Quasimoto), Jonson remains rhythm-driven at heart, trusting his instincts in this new palette of organic instrumentation and verse-chorus structure. Tracks glide and bump with tasteful care to tempo as his scene-building and storytelling knack comes into focus. Jonson’s past material often suited passive listenership, the kind of bedroom produced beat music that offers secondary utility and function as a companion to primary activities.
Tracklist
1. Phases (ft. Sharrif Simmons)
2. Come Visit Me
3. Interlude
4. Shee
5. Leave It
6. I Am Close to the River
7. Feel
8. A Conversation
9. Everything is Different (To Me)
10. Wy
11. Otto's Dance
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