Brant Bjork – Jacoozzi
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Brant Bjork is a renaissance man without a doubt. Better known for his role in the now legendary desert rock band Kyuss, Bjork is a musician that knows no boundaries. Since 1999, Bjork has put out no less than 12 albums on his own and/or with accompaniment by The Bros and The Low Desert Punk Band. In all honesty, none of his albums really struck much of a chord with me but it was 2018’s Mankind Woman that hit a note with me.
For some reason, Mankind Woman got buried in a barrage of other albums last year and sadly got overlooked when making up my Top albums of 2018. 2019’s Jacoozzi is an album of instrumental music and I am a fucking sucker for a great instrumental album. As a huge fan of instrumental acts, I have learned that some do it good and some do it outstandingly. Jacoozzi is hands down not just outstanding by one of my favorite instrumental albums to date.
One of the things I love the most about Jacoozzi is the sparseness of the arrangements and the playing. While Kyuss may have been a more “desert” feel to it, Jacoozzi seems to cover a lot ground. One moment I’m in the desert riding the snake with “Black & White Wonderland,” for a brief moment I’m Second Line dancing in New Orleans to “Five Hundred Thousand Dollars,” and suddenly I’m dancing around a fire on a beach to “Oui.”
Jacoozzi is an album that really took me back a bit. It was definitely not what I was expecting but Jacoozzi is definitely an album for all moods. It can serve as a soundtrack to a pool party, a soundtrack for the beach, and most importantly a cosmic soundtrack for the mind (tools to obtain cosmic vibes not included.) Jacoozzi is an album that has a little bit for everyone but most importantly has everything for me. Jacoozzi is an album that will definitely not be overlooked this year.
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