From the crummy and rude glory hole bandits of Newark's Penn Station to the Cherry Blossom park lovers north of that city there's a thread, binding these disparate elements.  Painted by a sound reflective of the city’s seaside soul, skate-funk punks and the Newark Jack Swing played from transistor radios and boomboxes placed on competitive window sills, The Jack Moves (Zee Desmondes, Teddy Powell) narrative is artfully carried out on the band's sophomore offering, "Free Money". 

As kids run across the boulevard and the soundtrack wafts over the streets, the few bucks forked over to the pregnant lady down on her luck could be the same notes used to cop a flavorful bouquet for a romantic conquest. The triggerman's itchy index is used both to spill rivals and thrill lovers. The Jack Moves are what this sounds  like on wax. 

As with most art created in earnest, the band's music has the ability to occupy spaces beyond its origin city. It has become a vehicle spanning coasts and subcultures, perhaps unintended. Out West, it wouldn't be surprising to hear some Jack Moves ballad billowing from a lowrider during a backseat make-out session.  Meanwhile in Japan, their hit song was hawking Big Macs™ at Mickey Deeznuts. The band’s debut drew comparisons to "Off the Wall" era Michael Jackson, The Escorts and the Whatnaughts. The Jack Moves hit the road playing supporting dates traveling around the world from Brixton Academy to Red Rocks Ampitheater and Tokyo. 

And so it should come as a surprise that The Jack Moves would record most of their latest material on the fringe of Los Angeles, placing their intrinsically east coast essence into  the hands of idiot shaman and occasional platinum record producer, JP Plunier. Way out west the music was unshackled and this new sound was soul without the chains of the past.

These are the songs young beat-choppers will be sampling in the post-millenial era. 

“Free Money” is out Sept XX, on Everloving.

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The Jack Moves "Free Money"

Everloving is an indie label and artist management company in Los Feliz, Ca.  Starting in 2001 with Jack Johnson's debut, Everloving has grown into a finely curated boutique label of eclectic albums ranging from the lo-fi surf goth of The Growlers to Inara George and Van Dyke Park's baroque orchestral masterpiece 'An Invitation.'  Everloving has a taste for releasing beautiful music from around the globe and recently released Adanowsky's US debut 'Amador' and will continue their French invasion with Don Cavalli's forthcoming sophomore release.  If you loved Metric's first album, preferred the Dogtown and Z-boys documentary to the Big Hollywood version, or think Cornelius is a genius,  then you'll probably find something you like here.

The Jack Moves "Free Money"

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