{"id":448093,"date":"2025-12-15T06:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/448093\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T06:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:41:12","slug":"jawnino-surf-gang-amnesia-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/448093\/","title":{"rendered":"Jawnino \/ Surf Gang: amnesia Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You won\u2019t find it in the gift shops or on the tourist board website, but amnesia is about as precise a postcard of a certain side of London as you\u2019ll find. While on paper this is a transatlantic link-up\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/jawnino\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jawnino<\/a> is from South London, while the production collective <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/surf-gang\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Surf Gang<\/a> reps New York\u2014it was recorded entirely in the UK capital, and these hazy London conjurings are hugely evocative of the city. Songs are littered with knowingly niche local references: tiny east London pub-clubs, competing rap rivals from the DVD era. But beyond these details, amnesia\u2014in its blend of moody cloud rap, club trap, and stormy breaks\u2014also invokes a specific malaise that has squatted over the UK for the last stagnating decade. It\u2019s the aural equivalent of being folded into the sofa, having a nice, long doomscroll.<\/p>\n<p>The EP conjures, in particular, those liminal hours that stretch from club to couch. The synths on opener \u201c40pageant\u201d trickle like rain down a steamy bus window, while Jawnino skids over a scratchy breakbeat. His noncommittal drawl on \u201ctelly on the blink\u201d sits somewhere between <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/john-glacier\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Glacier<\/a>\u2019s trippy streams of consciousness and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/28619-giggs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giggs<\/a>\u2019 sullen cadence during road rap\u2019s late aughts peak. And if the general vibe wasn\u2019t enough to get this point across, there\u2019s a track called \u201cbored of the uk\u201d (refrain: \u201cI\u2019m so bored of the UK\u201d) that drags the close sweatiness of Room 2 into your living room, and captures the feeling of the buzz slowly wearing off. It\u2019s music for soggy weather, sticky spliffs, and stunted ambitions. If living for the weekend used to be about working a 9-5 to fund your weekend bender of booze, birds, and bust-ups\u2014the type once chronicled by Mike Skinner with <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/3959-the-streets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Streets<\/a>\u2014then Jawnino and Surf Gang paint a modern day equivalent that is more about clubbing yourself into a seven-day settee slump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You won\u2019t find it in the gift shops or on the tourist board website, but amnesia is about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":448094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1939,171,67,132,68,1940],"class_list":{"0":"post-448093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-albums","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-web"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115722222585376729","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}