Jay Jay Johanson - electro era!

Talking about Jens Lekman, I remembered how much I enjoyed another Swedish artist's attempts at the electronic genre. Jay Jay Johanson was not welcomed by a landslide when at the time of the release of his 2 electro albums. Even if the minimal new wave sound that he probably borrowed from the Pet Shop Boys or Kraftwerk was pretty good, to my opinion.



The first of the two, "Antenna", whose two extracts "On The Radio" and "Automatic Lover" were released in 2005 introduced a fucked up Jay Jay Johanson complete with long red hair that were not really convincing...



After a best of CD, the second album showed some more maturity. With "Rush" (2005), Jay Jay who came back to a much more reasonnable clothing style gave us very melodic chords like Air's.



Another extract of this weird but beautiful album: "Because Of You", which is closer to an optimistic Daft Punk track.



The next album ("The Long Term Physical Effects Are Not Yet Known" - 2007) was a come back Johanson's musical roots and - incidently - to critical acclaim.