Backstage

Electronic · 2025 · 12 tracks · 50m

Backstage

Jay-Jay Johanson

Smoky, late-night trip-hop meets fragile jazz crooning. A beautifully melancholic, theater-shadowed record built on dusty rhythms and whisper-thin intimacy.

May 23, 2025 · ART/29 Music

A fragile, elegant late-night melancholy that feels like a warm embrace in a cold, empty room.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks · 50m

01

Trompe L'oeil

3:27

02

Backstage

4:45

03

Ten Little Minutes

3:50

04

Rimbaud

7:07

05

How Long Do You Think We’re Gonna Last?

4:36

06

The Caretaker

4:17

07

Together Again

2:39

08

Glue

4:12

09

We've Only Just Begun

3:52

10

Lujon

4:11

11

Ashtray

2:15

12

The Thunder Continues to Rumble

5:24

Moments Worth Listening For

The way the title track Backstage builds from a skeletal, dusty rhythm into a lush, heart-aching electronic swell behind his fragile whisper.

The sprawling, hypnotic seven-minute journey of Rimbaud, where the electronic textures gradually dissolve into a cinematic, dreamlike haze.

The stark, devastating simplicity of the closer The Thunder Continues to Rumble, where the quiet piano chords feel heavy with unspoken grief.

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