Tour Dates

28 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Lilla Hotellbaren 
Feb 13 - Norrköping, Sweden @ Where´s The Music 
Feb 14 - Berlin, Germany @ Karrera Club 
Feb 15 - Paris, France @ Festival a Nous Paris Fireworks 
Feb 16 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso 
Feb 19 - Dublin, Ireland @ Academy Dublin 
Feb 20 - Galway, Ireland @ Roisin Dubh 
Feb 21 - Limerick, Ireland @ The Kasbah 
Feb 22 - Cork, Ireland @ Cyprus Avenue 
Feb 23 - Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen 
Feb 25 - London, UK @ Electrowerkz 
Feb 26 - Bristol, UK @ The Louisiana 
Mar 6 - Barcelona, Spain @ Razzmatazz

If you're looking for music that's emotionally engaging, texturally lush, loaded with detail, adventurous in spirit and melodically rich, then Jape are worthy of your time.’ Drowned in Sound

‘The strong hooks bring you in and the downbeat material creeps up on you.’ The 405
The prolific Richie Egan returns with Jape’s fifth studio album ‘This Chemical Sea’, available from January 26th on Faction Records.

Revered by critics and fans alike in their native Ireland, Jape is the only act to have received the Meteor Choice Award for best Irish album twice: for their third album ‘Ritual’ (2008) and their last full length effort 'Ocean of Frequency' (2011).

On this LP, Jape have tangibly honed their sound, and written what the band calls ‘the first album which has a uniquely 'Jape' sound from start to finish, a type of gothic pop with lyrics of unusual depth.’ The record combines the mindset of genre-bending music that the band have always been admired for with a strict adherence to a pop format. It incorporates a nod to some of Egan’s biggest experimental influences (Voices from the Lake, Raymond Scott, The Microphones), but never veers away from placing the songs firmly within the frame of the pop genre.

The hooks throughout the LP are strong and resonate above the bouncing keyboards, particularly on the record’s lead single ‘The Heart’s Desire’. The Peaking Lights remix of the track, which premiered on The Line of Best Fit and received coveted airplay on Huw Stephens’ show, takes the song’s irresistible melodies and lets them flow for seven minutes, highlighting the band’s talent for penning an irresistable chorus.

The record’s strengths are enhanced by the skillful mix of David Wrench, who has worked with the likes of FKA Twigs, Caribou, and Jungle. The powerful melodies are nurtured, but never at the expense of the stunning instrumentation on tracks such as album opener ‘Seance of Light’, where the synthesizers shimmer and shine on a sea of deep electronic bass lines, along witTtother album highlights ‘Love on the Crest of a Wave’ and ‘Absolutely Animals’.

Following an extensive tour of Australia and Europe, Egan relocated to Malmo, Sweden in 2012, where he found a studio to write and record the majority of the new record. Egan explained his intention was to ‘make a coherent album that was a pure expression of my inner thoughts.’ Far from an insular process however, this was the first time somebody else was let in on the creative process. The tracks would be shared with fellow band member Glenn Keating for feedback, something Egan feels ‘was inspiring and helped me to push myself so much harder.’

As a man who has worked in many bands prior to, and alongside, Jape (The Redneck Manifesto, Villagers, David Kitt), Richie Egan has an impressive back catalogue of work, but ‘This Chemical Sea’ may well be considered his greatest achievement thus far. It is a compelling pop record with all the attributes of an album which will last well beyond its 2015 release.


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This Chemical Sea

I thought it would be nice to let you hear a track that Conor O Brien and I made together a while ago, with Glenn Keating providing drums and advice afterwards. The original plan was for me and Conor to take a song of each of ours and let the other one embellish it. This was a track I had written a while back on acoustic guitar, one night Conor came to my house, bringing his 808 and we stayed up all night recording, turning it into a different beast. It was a really magical night, constantly working until morning and then we had the basic bones of the track, I kind of let it sit on my hard drive for a good long time but then when these gigs came along Glenn and me took the track into his studio and recorded some extra drums and synths. Then I took it home to Malmo and mixed it myself in my little studio there. I'm classing this as a home mix. I'm not sure if it will end up any place else or even it might get remixed some place else, but either way I hope you enjoy it, and thanks a lot to Conor and Glenn for being such musical inspirations to me. Richie photo by Emelie Lidstrom 

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Ribbon Ribbon Ribbon (Demo)

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EUGH

SECRET AREA

GOODBYE HIGH

MARIA'S BIRTHDAY

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Heal These Wounds

Endless Thread

The Hilbert Hotel

What A Day

Fuck The Church

Lashing Through The Minutes

Delete The Timeline

In Our Home

Tomorrow

Peaking LIghts remix of the Jape track, 'The Hearts Desire'.. 

From Jape album, 'This Chemical Sea' out Jan. 2015..

Art by M&E

The Hearts Desire Peaking LIghts remix

Ribbon Ribbon Ribbon David Wrench Mix.

Feat. Conor O Brien 

From the album, 'This Chemical Sea' Jan 2015

Ribbon Ribbon Ribbon - David Wrench Mix

Here's a little home recorded track I made in Tigh Na Ri Rua and Malmo, it features Ross Turner on drums.

HARRINGTON STREET

New Jape Album, 'Ocean of Frequency'. Release date 30th. September 2011. 

www.japemusic.com
www.musicisforlosers.com

THE OLDEST MIND

I Am The Cosmos remix "I Go" from the 2015 Jape album "This Chemical Sea". Vocals from Girls Names.

Jape headline Vicar Street on December 12th: http://hyperurl.co/5z37zo
I Am The Cosmos: https://soundcloud.com/iamthecosmos
Girls Names: http://www.girlsnamesband.com

This Chemical Sea is out now!
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/ie/album/this-chemical-sea/id932334306?mt=1&app=music

Jape 'I Go' remix - I Am The Cosmos feat. Girls Names

Ritual

I Was A Man

The Hearts Desire

Seance of Light

The Monkeys in the Zoo Have More Fun Than Me

A Journey Is Just a Memory

The Hardest Thing to Do

How Much Light

Autumn Summer

Floating

Always Knew

Reminding Me

To the Sea

01 Floating

Ocean of Frequency

Please Don't Turn the Record Off

The Oldest Mind

Too Many People

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