Tracklist: 1. Brinna ut
2. Etiopisk hallucination
3. Letar efter nya plgor
4. Kpa saker
5. Verkligheten och jag
6. Balladen om elpriset i Augusti 2022
7. Coral bass strings
8. Ddsdisco
9. Ringer ringer
10. Vlkommen p intervju In 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 grabs you by the hand and pulls you into the pastoral bounce of Brinna ut, which, in spite of its meaning (Burn out), creates the kind of blind positivity and warm stomach feeling less cynical people might find in self-help seminars. For us, we have records like this. And, inertia be damned, Vol. 3 has charm like a balm. JJULIUS records have always arrived like meteors from another planet, an impression hammered home by the fact that theyre titled like compendiums of artifacts. And while Vols. 1 and 2 carried that notable tinge of darkness, Vol. 3 has (almost!) cast that shadow, adding elements of disco (Ddsdisco) and dream-pop (Etopisk hallucination) to his forever favorites Arthur Russell, African Head Charge, and The Fall. Some of that new car smell could be attributed to a change in process. Each song was written over beats played by Tor Sjdn of the wild-eyed Stockholm group Viagra Boys, beats that were themselves inspired by tracks from the likes of Patrick Cowley, CAN, Count Ossie, Black Devil Disco Club and others that Julius would send to him as inspiration. Unless youre Mark E. Smith, fervor fades. Eventually we all crave a lie down in some nice grass, a few minutes to gaze at the sky and wonder if everything is actually all that bad. Vol. 3 gives you 35 of those respiting minutes. No looking back, no misery, no talking trash, no enemies.