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It’s been six years since we’ve had a full Jay Som album, but Melanie Duterte has remained ambient. She kicked-off the early 2020’s as one half of the side project Bachelor alongside Palehound (El Kempner); produced music for Lucy Dacus, Jeff Tweedy, and Hatchie; and worked as both a producer and live band member of one of the biggest supergroups of the decade so far, boygenius.
Turning the lens back on herself, Duterte, as Jay Som, released Belong back in October. It’s a confluence of her years behind the board and as a musician, absorbing the processes of the songwriters around her in the interim years. A bit grittier, more reflective, and with a pop-punk edge of tension, it’s a marked growth for Duterte. She brought the full band to Studio 1A last week ahead of her show at Brushy Street Commons.
