{"product_id":"fine-jazz-dreams-lp-color","title":"Fine - Jazz Dreams (Clear purple Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFresh from ongoing actvities with cult entity The Crying Nudes alongside Dean Blunt, Fine Glindvad Jensen finally lands a new album, crooning across an impressionistic blur of chamber pop, Americana, doo-wop and blunted trip-hop, tipped FFO Cindy Lee, Mazzy Star, Jessica Pratt, Lana Del Rey.\n\n'Jazz Dreams' isn't a jazz album in any sense of the word, but the record and its maze of hazy, almost-familiar earworms took shape like a Jazz improv session. And If you copped 2024's 'Rocky Top Ballads' - still one of the modish Escho imprint's finest  - you'll already know just how special Fine's technical songwriting is. In a pop landscape dominated by brevity and ohrwurms, it's refreshing to get handed songs that make harmonic complexity feel like a completely carefree endeavour.\n\nNone of it would matter, though, if Fine's informally exquisite vocals didn't keep us captivated from beginning to end. She welcomes us with 'The Thing', a seemingly offhand Badalamenti-does-dub jam that wouldn't have felt out of place on the 'Mullholland Drive' soundtrack. It's a perfect place to start - pulling us gently into her waking dream, letting us know early-on that anything can happen. A phone rings, and we half expect to hear Bill Pullman on the other end of the line, instead Fine welds a molasses-slow bassline to strangulated pads and snakelike strings. \"Just breathe,\" she cries. \"Just breathe with me.\"\n\nIn its own way, 'Jazz Dreams' sounds like a Fine mixtape, putting her own spin on dusty faves she half remembers. 'Goodbye Brain' sounds like an intersection of classic girl group and post-punk, while the brief 'Sometimes I Rush' is a ruff-edged, C86-tinted glow-up of Massive Attack's 'Mezzanine' steeze. And even when the album threatens to veer into more placid waters on the downtempo single 'Run', Fine claws it back with whip-smart harmonies that wake us from the dream for a brief moment.\n\nImpeccably crafted from beginning to end - just tune into 'Portal' and some of the most subtle synthwork we've heard for years - the album is that most illusive treat, a pop album that never panders for a moment. Or maybe it's a collage of illusory experiments that just shows off Fine's superior understanding of pop history. Either way, it's gonna be on the listening pile for a minute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2042669428\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u0026lt;a href=\u0026quot;https:\/\/finefinefinefine.bandcamp.com\/album\/jazz-dreams\u0026quot;\u0026gt;Jazz dreams Fine\u0026lt;\/a\u0026gt;\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Escho","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49723557806339,"sku":"ESC210pur","price":5384.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/files\/a0271857415_10.jpg?v=1790643182","url":"https:\/\/meditations.jp\/en\/products\/fine-jazz-dreams-lp-color","provider":"Meditations","version":"1.0","type":"link"}