Felix Jaxx: Maximalist

There is a new Basement Jaxx album coming out in a few weeks. As Pitchfork was kind enough to report [I have to say that I perversely miss the days when Pitchfork wrote defensive, nasty, irrational things about Remedy instead of fawning over Felix & Simon's every beat], the new record is now streaming at their album website.

The album kind of sounds like it is going to be a return to pop form in comparison to Kish Kash, for what it's worth.

Because I am a crazy Jaxxaholic and can't get enough of being marketed to, I subscribed to the Crazy Itch Radio podcast. The first episode features a good number of high-quality long clips from songs from the record, as well as excerpts from an interview with the band. The interview contains the following unsurprising, if Sherburne-baiting, snippet:

Interviewer: "It's definitely more blissed out, and more mellow as a whole, as an overall sound."

Felix: "Well I think it's probably generally... with music that's around at the moment, with electronic music, it's all very kind of minimal and trying to sound dark. So it's really a reaction against what what everyone else is doing, probably. Just to have something nice and warm that you can get into, and hopefully kind of maximalist rather than minimalist."

Snap!