24 Hour Blogathon : Jagwar Ma - Uncertainty (Video)

Taken from our 5th favourite LP of 2013 Jagwar Ma’s trippy rotating six legged groove machine has released this new video for song Uncertainty. Don’t be put off by the relatively plodding start and the opening line of “I’ve got something boring,” this song is anything but that; it’s a pills and thrills journey of the highest order designed to make you dance in that narcotic lolloping style that was popular when all the indie and house-heads kids back in 1988/9 discovered that they could share common ground and common drugs. Despite the dayglo hands in the air grind of the tune the video isn’t all rainbows and unicorns, in fact it looks like Jagwar Ma are the last survivors at an empty post-apocalyptic rave.

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Jagwar Ma - Uncertainty 

Albums of the Year 2013 #5 - Jagwar Ma - Howlin

Our 5th favourite album of the year. Combining the sound of the late 80’s / early 90’s Madchester scene, 60’s harmonies, psychedelic swirls, sunshine guitar riffs, samples, loops, house and electronica, Howlin by Jagwar Ma is a hypnotically potent beast that will find you grooving your heart away.

Australians Jono Ma and Gabriel Winterfield have taken elements of the past and reconstructed them into something new. It’s an album that can be enjoyed by pill popping hedonists, indie kids, chilled dudes on the beach in summer and connoisseurs at home on their headphones. From the bleeps, pulses, percussive repeats and reverb laden floating vocal snatches of Four, to the more song based stomping surf rock of Let Her Go, Howlin is a record to get lost in, to dance to and to listen to with a big stupid grin on your face.

Jagwar Ma - The Throw

Jagwar Ma - Let Her Go (Jagwar's Yew Mix)

It might only be October but already the part of the Breaking More Waves brain that likes to tie things up, file, compartmentalise and generally organise our musical life is thinking end of year lists. That means our own Ones to Watch for 2014 list (already written and fully formed and now being fleshed out into a series of blog posts starting some time mid-November) and our top 10 favourite albums of 2013 list, which is just beginning to shape.

One album that is certainly a contender for that list is Jagwar Ma’s Howlin’, an irresistibly groovy mix of surf rock, psychedelic tendencies, and electronic house grooves that recalls the spirit of The Happy Mondays and the age of late 80’s and early 90’s indie dance. From it comes this track Let Her Go, one of the more guitar driven summertime beach thumpers, which the band has given a little electronic sprucing for the dance floor with a big old chunky electronic bass sound. One for hands in the air, fist pumping, hip shoving indie disco grooving – the only criticism is that it needs an extended work out rather than its criminally short two minutes and forty five seconds.

Jagwar Ma - Let Her Go (Jagwar's Yew Mix)