The Jakes changed their name in January and began working on an album with producer Joe Chiccarelli , tracking most of the songs at Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles. Worldwide promotion of the album continued well into , as it took until the summer to make it physically available in most territories. Sessions for a second full-length began with producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen in summer The resulting album, the heavier Mind Over Matter , arrived in January , and saw the group make the jump to Warner subsidiary Fueled by Ramen.
The album fared well enough to reach number seven on Billboard's Top , and Young the Giant toured heavily in support of it over the following two years.
In April , they debuted the lead single "Amerika," which appeared on their third effort, Home of the Strange , a substantive collection of songs that ruminated on the group's immigrant history and American identity as a whole. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript.
Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. This, in part, is why rock and alternative have taken a major hit in popularity. What is true is that the alternative artists these publications have historically chosen to spotlight are overwhelmingly white, perpetuating this fictitious narrative even further.
This lack of representation has significant consequences. How did a genre that was once a collaborative refuge for marginalized misfits come to be misrepresented as the homogenous blob it once revolted against? This is the main dilemma I set to correct with my SiriusXM Alt Nation feature, Point of Origin, where each month, I spotlight an artist of color from the alternative space and trace their point of origin to their childhood.
We bond over shared victories and defeats, music, and the American experience. Self-producing this has been a labor of love, but it has become more and more apparent to me that alternative was, is, and always will be, a haven for all who are misunderstood.
Perhaps if I keep going, the rest of the world will see that, too. Still, the job of setting the story straight is a thankless one. We are tired of the soapbox. This is the tightrope for musicians of color to walk, between the timely context of representation and the timeless anonymity of art. The result is that we are tokenized like rare collectibles, and the strength of our work is devalued by this unsettling exchange. After all, history is still being written by the same people who had written us out before.
With representation comes community; community emboldens narratives that challenge both our beliefs and institutions.
The marketing behemoth that has incentivized cultural diversity is a necessary evil on the road to progress, but we must dig further in order to reach our goal.
With the influx of social media use and public attention to cultural issues in the country, people have been forced to see how their actions, both good and bad, are reflected. The space in-between is infinite. Right from the opening track "Superposition," Mirror Master proves untethered to the mundane, its ethereal textures merging with lyrics that capture the cosmic destiny of a life-altering romance e.
Then, on "Simplify," Young the Giant switch gears to offer up an anthem built on bold and buzzing guitar riffs.
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