Please note this is a pre-order item due for release 5th September, 2025

Woozy Blue Colour

Tracklist:

1. Woozy
2. Pistachios
3. Big Tings (Feat Tune-Yards)
4. J.O.Y
5. Assumptions
6. Gratitude
7. Ask 4 Help
8. Palma Wise
9. Dsntrlymt Tr
10. Untitled (Swirl)
11. Sun Baby

JayWood the nom de plume of Jeremy Haywood-Smith is embracing new pastures having moved his music-making from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Montreal, and his new album Leo Negro chimes with a different tone as it looks to reconnect the self and grapple with ones identity. Marking a moment of meaningful change where controlled chaos takes the lead, it philosophises on what it truly means to be an experimentalist building a multi-faceted world where genre is infinite through sounds braver, more playful, and truthful than hes dared deliver before. Despite its astute sampling with layers of twists and turns, Leo Negro doesnt showboat but roars in the presence of vulnerability as it considers ones abso-lutes as a way of navigating the identity crisis. Always looking for attention, I admit it, I cant help it, Im a Leo, he reasons between vintage hip-hop scrubs Pistachios, recalling a childhood need to be the centre of attention then stepping out of the spotlight as a grown-up. Leos are confident and sure about themselves, but this record isnt that; so really, when translated, the title inspiresblack confidence. Its an uncomfortable, weird, and surreal term which bends the truth and embodies everything within.

Experimenting in both life and music, Leo Negro and its first cut, Big Tings (feat.California, art-pop duo Tune-Yards) couldnt be further from 2023s Grow On EPand the previous years slick LP Slingshot. Moving with flow akin to DAngelo with Toro Y Moi textures, its twinkling intro of whirling synth and playful approach circles back to Jeremys adolescence when hed reverse, slow down, and speed up his favourite songs through the media player on his computer. Encouraged by his musical squad Will Grierson, Arthur Antony, Brett Ticzon, and enlisting his stylist and thrifter friends to capture the Leo Negro aesthetic, Jay-Woods big in for 2025 is collaboration, with the tight-knit crew of likeminded musical colleagues captured in session photo grins beaming from his Instagram grid.