Jacob Collier - Djesse, Vol. 4 - Album Review
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- For this album review, Jacob Collier delivers his newest release of bloated, sterile extravagance.
Best Songs: 'She Put Sunshine’, ‘Little Blue’ ft. Brandi Carlile, ‘Never Gonna Be Alone’ ft. Lizzy McAlpine & John Mayer
Worst Song: ‘10,000 Voices’, ‘WELLLL’, ‘Mi Corazon’ ft. Camilo
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Jacob Collier - Djesse Vol 4 - Album Review (progressive pop / soul / jazz fusion)
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I can understand how he might not be the best at every genre he tries, but I am always captivated by the spin he puts on them, and little subtleties. And in a world full of cynicism it is refreshing that he is so genuine and down to earth. Good review though
i agree wholeheartedly!
Condescending arrogant review. Sounds like a guy imitating a bad, snotty Rex Reed type critic.
@@bryanleggo3489Dang! He really hurt your feelings with this review
Jacob Collier is so frustrating because he is IMMENSELY talented, but has such a bad habit of throwing every single musical idea into one song all at once rather then fleshing out anything at all
Yawn. Those were some words that really didn't say much - certainly nothing accurate. Just because there is a LOT and perhaps more than you're capable of processing does NOT mean that's his every "single musical idea". Those are spread out across 15? 17? songs (how do you even count Box?) and on any particular shorter song I see fullness but not anything that doesn't fit or belong there.
But do try to give a specific example if you're up to it.
Agreed
Technically he may be talented, but he is a soulless husk, just like Yngwie or whoever. He plays so vacuous and inane. He ain't no Richard Thompson or Steve Nieve, who actually channel their technical goodness for intriguing music. Old Jake would be brilliant session man, but he's no ideas guy, and that is certain sure.
@NotoriousLightning Calling anyone a "soulless husk" is just mad disrespectful unless you can prove for a fact it was AI generated. I don't like AJR's music and how it sounds like Target commercials but it's not "soulless" because they do bear their souls in them. The way they do it just does not resonate with me same as Jacob doesn't for you, and that's fine
@@NotoriousLightning LOL! You use the same exact same vague cliches of every other dweeb on hater pages like this followed by gibbersh illke "He plays so vacuous and inane" There are literally millions of people who don't care about the technique moved by his music including the small numbers with plenty of heart and humanity that you've seemed to intentionally omit. His influences were classic singer songwriters as well as Take 6 complex harmonies.
To just play a guitar in basic ways would be waste so yes, he's no Richard Thompson or Steve Nieve and thank goodness for that since there are already too many of those standard issue types. The first is mediocrity personified and the latter barely has a career except when playing a a sideman to Costello with other bigger names. Of course Jacob is all about ideas - innovative MUSICAL ones and things that haven't and can't be done by others. Maybe his lyrics will get better as he gets more real life experience but it's outright idiotic to dismiss music idea base music in favor of lyrics which are a modern pop affectation. Some of the greatest music have no lyrics at all in classical and jazz and some of us aren't that impressed with boring Thompson and NIeve. In fact, neither is much of the public.
my brother expressed annoyance with some discourse that comes up around Collier, saying that some are like "this shows that having music theory or complexity ruins pop music!"
which, no, obviously, considering many great songs are made by people with technical prowess. the big prog rock acts of the past like Yes are the most obvious example, and the newer acts like Thank You Scientist and most recently Moron Police continue in that vein. my brother brought up Flying Lotus. for rappers, you could look at JID today. even among virtuoso musicians of some level, Collier trails behind in song structure and composition behind Paul Gilbert, Bumblefoot, Thundercat, Knower's Louis Cole and Genevive Artadi...
really, it just feels like Jacob Collier needs another pass at the whole "structure" and "lyricism" side of things. a single novel run of chords does not a compelling song structure make.
10,000 voices in the worst makes me sad, a few of my personal close friends are on that song :( but yeah i definitely share a lot of the same issues with jacob collier
a rock somewhere is my favorite song. even if everything doesn’t hit, his music always captivates me and i appreciate his experimentation
Mine too. The sitar and singing is amazing yet not obstrusive.
That song and Summer Rain before it, incredible songs
Mark bringing the disappointed teacher vibes today.
Some songs on the record are simply top tier beautiful (Little Blue, Summer Rain -and those live videos, my god!), others are kinda jarring and over the top.
But his pretty songs are incredible and emotional and can be listened endlessly on repeat, so you gotta take what you like and leave the rest when it comes to Jacob.
He’s immensely talented but I don’t feel anything with his music
Agreed
Will you review the new Justin Timberlake or Tierra Whack album?
Kompis! You always say you're Mark from Spectrum Pulse, but I thought you were Mark from Canada.
Djesse is Not a Genre
I totally respect your opinion, but I couldn't disagree more. I LOVE it more than I expected, and more each time I listen. It takes me on an emotional rollercoaster, and even with soime of the more fun, dancy/electronic stuff to balance it out. He's artist who questions all rules and fearlessly explores new frontiers, and THAT is super exciting for me.
I like Jacob Collier a hell of a lot more than you do but I love your reviews of him because I agree with pretty much everything you're saying. His singles always hit so much better than the album and I'm always convinced he's going to release something great and am then very disappointed when I listen to the album 4 or 5 times and completely forget about it
Or maybe you just have a singles AM radio 3 minute mindset which is WHY he releases singles that that crowd can handle. Did you think he'd ever release Box of Stars on it's own? Even many of his fans wouldn't know what to do with it.
@@bryanleggo3489you don't have to keep simping for Jacob under every comment criticizing him bro. It's a review ffs, and we all have the right to criticize an artist.
@@ASCENSiON_ "Simping" meaning addressing ignorant remarks? I'm perfectly ok with that.
Nobody suggested you don't have the right. Then I have the right to respond too. You have the right to call him a terrorist as far as that goes but none of those remarks were much more coherent, intelligent or musically literate at all. They were generic analogies that don't speak about musical specifics at all. That's even more true Mark (is it?) who confuses being loudly opinionated but musically illiterate as actual "criticism".
Yours was equally superficial calling for a uniformity which defies the core reason for this album and all these global collaborations.
I have some criticisms of JC myself but this kind of shallow, uninformed garbage? Hard pass. It's just the hubris of a whiner/hater aimed at getting clicks and cash. Look at the followers and you see much the same disaffected whineyness - not articulate criticism. All those air quotes are extremely lame as well.
Agree with you saying so disappointed with album. He last album 2022. Amazing album best feature.
"No Collier, we DON'T need to throw all the instruments onto the mix"
He didn't. Only a couple of tracks had a lot of instruments. Several had none at all.
@@bryanleggo3489 got it
@@bryanleggo3489and a whole bunch of those songs are just dull.
@@nikocayetano1805 Nothing is as dull as vague comments like yours that are pretty much meaningless. "Whole bunch". LOL!
@@bryanleggo3489 i dont have to fully explain myself i listened to the album and it sounds like hes just doing things to “prove” how talented he is instead of making a cohesive listenable album.
Do I even bother listening to this
No
This review? No. Same for other no-talent critics.
If you wanna torture yourself, sure!
@bryanleggo3489 You're so butthurt in all the comments. Most critics have ranked this poorly, which most likely triumphs your obsessed subjective fan worship. Get over yourself and listen to better music! It's out there!
@@Demention94 "Most critics"! LOL! Exactly how many did you track and log? Buffoon. And you think this clown is a actual critic? He's a youtuber that came in hard with lot of bias and attitude that wasn't even ABOUT the music.
Also please try to find cliches a little less tired and outdated than "butthurt".
This is why I never bought into the Jacob Collier hype amongst my fellow music students (education, performance, and business majors), despite his genuinely great musicianship. And it’s also probably why he’s not as big as some would argue he should be.
So they're smarter than you. He's not big because he's not simplistically commercial like a mediocre Taylor Swift the billionaire. He may have a big hit or two eventually but I don't imagine he cares about that. It's not his musicianship that is unparalleled except maybe in how many instruments or how precise the vocals. It's the harmonization.
Except the harmonies on his songs aren’t even that complex? They’re fairly standard jazz stuff. There’s so much further he could’ve gone with them.
@@agogobell28 LOL! Complete nonsense. Little of it is jazz at all, although I sometimes wish he'd return to those roots and NONE of it is standard, Numerous analysts have talked about that in some detail like Charles Cornell and Adam Neely. All Night Long alone is pretty radical.
I come from a jazz piano background, so I’d say I’m relatively qualified to assess this sort of stuff. And there’s nothing wrong with relatively standard jazz harmonies! I use them all the time in my own music. But to claim that Collier’s music on this album is far-reaching and radical, within the broader context of jazz and soul and R&B in general, is (IMO) going somewhat farther than is necessary. You can like someone’s music without needing to claim that it’s something that it’s not.
@@agogobell28 I didn't claim that and despite your alleged background you missed the point anyway. It's not like there even IS such a thing as a radical departure from existing chords and harmonies. It's about the PROGRESSION and the ways you do it and in his case the way, he applies theory as well. Nobody in jazz was planning and using different types of tunings and mircrotonal shifts within the same song. Nobody was doing progressions like in All Night Long. Something like stacking fourths may rarely exist in jazz somewhere but it is NOT standard at all. and don't even pretend you have more of a "background" than the analysts including the two I already mentioned. After the free jazz late stage Coltrane nothing will sound more "radical" than atonality but even with that it is the WAY you use atonality that differentiates Coltrane from others and from Schoenberg and Ligeti and so on. And it also becomes about the creation of new raw sounds because you're not going to create a brand new 13th chord that's never existed before. Did you see and hear "Wellll" with the crocs in the video? Basic rock in some ways except with interludes and sounds that were very out of place in a regular rock. Did you know that those sounds were literally DERIVED from the sound a croc makes? Charlie Parker extended the scale but he never did anything like that.
Leonard Bernstein talked about the crisis of modern music having nowhere new to go 40 years ago and he was correct in terms of new new notes within harmonies but there are still other ways to innovate with sound, even in things like House music (e.g. Skrillex). JC does just that. On this album A Rock Somewhere uses sitar and raga styles which have also been used in rock and jazz but he did it much better and more organically than The Beatles ever did. In fact, he got her to put a little jazz lick into the middle of it which may not be "radical" (and who cares?) but it's still unique and awesome.
Jacob Collier really reminds me of those obnoxious music major snobs who think playing 128th notes in one breath on a bassoon automatically equals good music.
Djesse Vol. 4 is a massive, confusing mess of an album. Jacob's got talent, but he needs to realize that less is more, because throwing every random idea at the wall to see what sticks is not a good idea.
I know. For me disappointed. Last album. Djesse Vol. 3. Amazing album. My list album best of 2022
Just the title and album cover alone tells me all I need to know about this album. Yuck.
I call it A SKIP VERY VERY BORING ALBUM
I call you unusually unimaginative. There are things to love and like and maybe dislike for some but boring? No, that's you.
@bryanleggo3489 bruh how much of your life have you wasted by vehemently disagreeing with every comment under this video that expresses anything even remotely negative about Jacob Collier? Do you not have better things to do?
@@whyisntitpossible404 I didn't last night and your concern for time mgmt, touching as it is, makes me wonder why you're wasting time on me, "bruh". In fact, why are you not out making great music the world adores?
@@bryanleggo3489 weak
this album is like a mix of alot of sanitized surface level musical ideas
LOL! Not even a surface level comment you made there. Just generic and shallow with no substance.
this is a hilarious comment bruh you’re so right
when i saw your video was only five minutes long, i already feared the worst. and i was right. what never fails to frustrate me are "critics" like you trying to objectively measure art. jacob collier is a one-of-a-kind artist who is uniting people from all over the world through music, mixing styles and genres to create something truly unique and, in my opinion, absolutely beautiful. if it's not for you, then so be it. but don't pretend to know better than him and say that his music is bad, because it only makes you look bitter and close minded. jacob collier himself said it best: "there is no good or bad music, just music that works for you, and music that doesn't"(paraphrased). and it works for me, as for millions of other people. he is doing good, and people like you should not be discouraging those good actions.
Not sure whether or not, some folks are listening to the same album? As for this video. Strewps Bro, I get it, we get it, you just don’t like any of the music on Jacob’s Djesse Vol. 4 music album. However fortunately there are now dozens upon dozens of other reactionary videos, and from other CZcamsrs, professional musicians that, all have strongly disagreed with your complete hatchet job here. I mean, a prime example of how completely tone-deaf your opinions are here, are with your bleak, doomsday assessment of Jacob’s version of Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water. Which the vast majority of the general public have given high praise to. It’s weird that so many angry and triggered negative reviewer’s have got absolutely nothing good to say about Jacob’s music.
I mean, if Jacob was really that bad as you’re desperately trying to make him out to be. Then, he wouldn’t be doing live performances to sell out music festivals. This review is so bad. It’s almost as if, music artists simply cannot be avant garde, eclectic, experimental anymore. It’s not as if Jacob Collier is reinventing the wheel here. I mean, what prey tell were the likes of Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Prince, all doing during their jazz fusion/funk periods (1970s-1990s). It’s almost as, like prog-rock did not exist. And if anyone dares to include a couple bars of heavy metal/rock in a section of their jazz fusion compositions. Then they will get crucified for daring to try something different. Anyone whose seen Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Genesis live, will very well know how these artists (including David Bowie) could and would experiment and push alternative music genres on their albums. The very basic principle of any review is to give a well balanced overall thoughts and opinions regarding a piece of music, or artist. And not to try to deliberately and intentionally influence the audiences or listeners into disliking something, just because you might have issues. This is not the whole point of reviewing stuff. It’s a bit like saying that, you don’t like Taylor Swift’s, Ed Sheeran, or Stevie Wonders music, and that everyone should hate them as well. That’s not how it works. I mean why do a review in the first place? What purpose does this serve? I just don’t get it. And how on earth are any new upcoming artist or performers going to learn or gain anything or real value. If all that is now happening is everybody just jumps on the same bandwagon, and literally just spout pure hate?
Also FFS, why at this point can't you pronounce DJESSE properly? Bridge is a dud? Wow, you really are quite dim. It's the one getting all the attention and moving so many people because it's the showstopper and for me, along with A Rock Somewhere which is somehow so heartfelt and simple despite the crazy complexity of the sitar/singing.
I'll grant that Mi Corazon doesn't add much but that almost sounds like a marketing collab for someone Spanish speaking from Latin America since the obvious intent was to widely collaborate including internationally since his base is wider than the UK and North America.
No matter how many replies you drop in CZcams comment sections, Jacob's not gonna fuck you, bro
@@woobackwednesday2299 It was two main comments and given that your comment was somewhere between infantile and inarticulate vulgar teen, I don't think anybody will be much impressed with your "intelligence".
@@woobackwednesday2299 Low rent people people often themselves quickly with infantile comments like that so thanks for the speed on that. You "mind" is all GIGO. Or are you just 16?
Camilo 🤮