K. Records
2008
A Place Where We Could Go
About This Album
Part poet, part '50s teen idol and part ghost, Jeremy Jay begins his debut album by wishing his listeners goodnight, then pulls them into his lovely, haunting world. A Place Where We Could Go -- which might be somewhere between Tinseltown and Neverland -- is a place where girls have "fairytale looks" and candied apples are served for lunch, where dreams, fantasies and movies collide, and where Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly, Morrissey and Alan Vega are loved equally. It's no surprise that Jay calls his hometown of Los Angeles the City of Angels -- he's a true romantic and sensualist, transforming his surroundings into a glamorous, magical reality and giving his songs names that could pass for '50s melodramas. Interestingly, though, A Place Where We Could Go's sound is relatively simple, even stark; Jay sticks with drums, bass, guitar and the occasional piano as the background to his reveries. However, he more than fills up any spaces left by the spare instrumentation, as his earnest, clearly enunciated voice runs from a croon to impassioned spoken word, and his lyrics add even more vivid details ("you'll be wearing a pink dress with black shoes," he sings to his sweetheart on the title track).
Track List (try tracks 3,4,6 and 7)

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