The Chuckness

So a couple bizarro-world Swedish groups decided to team up, cover Blondie, and devote “Ave Maria” to Maria Sharapova. A casual Monday in Sweden. Perfectly normal thought-process…nothing to see here. For a reason unknown, I’m entirely addicted to it’s unparalleled weirdness. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download: CEO – Ave Maria (feat. jj) [via PMA] Tweet

I’m on the 42nd floor in an apartment building in downtown Chicago right now, gearing up for the final day of Lollapalooza. As you’ve noticed there haven’t been any posts for the past week, as I’m not cool enough to have backup writers yet. I’m in the midst of a 2 week vacation, consisting of the beaches in Maine, to the streets of Chicago, to finally a small little island back in Maine. Internet is sparse, so while we’re buckled down in recovery mode before our final Lollapalooza go-around, I figured I’ll try to collect a few tracks that I’ve … Continue reading →

jj’s trippy style continues with their most recent release, “Celebris”. People tripping balls all over the globe rejoice. They walk a fine line between being overly bizarre, yet still listenable; and you gotta respect them for that. That’s not easy to do. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download: jj – Celebris [via Listen Before You Buy] Tweet

A brand new track was recently released from jj, the Swedish duo who’s mastered the art of haunting yet intoxicating vocals. “Ice” is instant relaxation, and serves as a great preview for their upcoming project No One Can Touch Us Tonight. If you’re the slightest hint tired, I recommend not listening to this; as you’ll be asleep within roughly 14 seconds. Proven fact. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download: jj – Ice [via] Tweet

It’s 11:30 pm, and everyone’s Christmas day is finally dying down. Presents have been unwrapped, dinner’s been eaten, the extended family has left the house, and the majority of those that celebrate Christmas are approaching some high quality REM sleep. What better time to get completely mindfucked by some eerie Swedish pop? jj (they spell it lowercase on purpose for no apparent reason) takes on a bunch of popular hip-hop beats that we’re familiar with, and add their ghostly vocals on top to hit you with some trippy musical drugs. Hit a few highlights, and download the mixtape in it’s … Continue reading →

Here are two newly released tracks from the unbelievably eerie Swedish duo known as jj (check out some earlier material here). That’s the one word that comes to mind when I play anything by them…they’re just eerie as hell. They had a ton of underground success this past year with the release of their third album, jj n° 3, and they’ll undoubtedly build off of that in 2011. The pair has this odd fascination with taking popular hip hop beats and layering some creepy vocals on top…which works for me. Check out “Let Them” in which they transform Akon’s “I … Continue reading →

Here’s some new trippy ass/catchy jj from their upcoming album jj nº 3. This band is really growing on me…don’t get me wrong it’s beyond different and it’s kind of tough to warm up to… but hey, a little Swedish music never hurt anybody. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download: jj – And Now Tweet

Lately, I’ve been utterly EMPTY music-wise.  Music blogs all over the place are just throwing filler material up on their sites, and I just haven’t been into any of it.  Hence my week hiatus of posting new material.  Then the ever so mysterious band “jj” came along with this pure gem of a song.  I’ve been listening to their album jj n° 2 for a bit now, and it’s really grown on me.  I still have yet to see photographic evidence of what the band looks like; all I know is they’re a trippy, mysterious band out of Sweden that … Continue reading →