The American singer-songwriter Melina Mae Dutere aka Jay Som started her music career as a DIY artist. As a child she learned to play the trumpet and guitar and started recording music at the age of twelve. Her debut album (2016) was produced and recorded by herself. She wrote, performed and produced this third full-length herself, but she was now also open to collaborations with other artists,
… such as Annie Truscott from and Taylor Vick from . A prominent place within Dutere's sound are screeching and echoing guitars. Here she creates a dreamy sound with a venomous edge, which is located on the dividing line between dreampop and shoegaze. The album contains beautiful psychedelic influences and unexpected details, such as the wonderfully sliding pedal steel guitar in the closing track Get Well. (JvQ)more
