JUICE is 11 years old! We’ve seen too many Editors, Writers, Designers, and Interns come and leave the office since the inception of the mag, but what comes after JUICE for them?
“Had we been schooled on how to [play instruments properly], we wouldn’t be sitting here right now. Everything works out in the end.” – Jonny, The Drums
JUICE took a bit of Nick of Empire of the Sun’s time and discussed the waning myth of pop and rock stars, the band’s cinematic eye for a medium that rouses our hearing, and the destructive potential of pop music.
While Justin Timberlake’s seminal third album was a reaction to the new wave of outré r’n’b acts, last year already had an oft-forgotten soulful white boy reacting to that kind of music; JMSN (pronounced Jameson, like the liquor).
This month, noticing a new zeitgeist afoot in the bigger world of music – the kind with a focal point in electronic instruments – we decided to take a wider look into 5 acts (most already covered by us in microcosm); +2dB, Adam Kasturi, MOIST, MUSCLE//MACHINE, and Stellar Dreams.
Acknowledging how ripe JB is as the capital of cool, we got an anonymous member of the state’s equivalent of KL’s stalwarts of indie nights to contextualise Johor’s blooming subcultures.
Richard Jones on breaking their 2-year-gap in between releases tradition, whether Kelly is an auteur in the studio, and found out about the new album’s movie potential.