#jacob collier

[catchymemes]

#Jacob Collier

[narcissistcookbook]

I know people have very mixed feelings about Jacob Collier. When I hear someone say "no amount of musical theory can teach you how to write a good song" I can... ugh, I guess if I strain I can see what they're saying? His lyrics are basic a lot of the time. His voice is very limited. He changes key and plays with tonality in a way that I suppose can feel arbitrary

But that's just the thing - he's playing. I listen to his work and I hear a Mozart-level genius just playing in a sandbox. He produces songs that don't sound like anything anyone else is making, that don't sound like anyone else could make, and it feels like an effortless game he's playing to pass the time. Putting a djent section at the end of what might be your most beautiful song? lol you fuckin dork

His music feels like the purest form of songwriting to me - what happens when someone has a borderline-supernatural mastery of music and uses it to fuck about and make albums in their bedroom for fun.

#jacob collier

[omgthatdress]

Jacob Collier's look is "the most annoying theater kid you know."

#Jacob Collier #Grammys

[leogcrespo]

Jacob is an absolute god of music, music runs through him much more than blood does. Watching him answer these questions from people, you can get a hint at how he sees and feels music in a way that is beyond what everyone else does.

#jacob collier #god of music #Youtube

[lissaxoxsworld]

when I tell you, tori is an absolute vocal beast, I’m not playing🔥🔥👑👑 also completely agree with the caption 🥹🥹😘😘

#tori kelly #celebrities #music #bridge over troubled water #jacob collier #Youtube

[patricia-taxxon]

i dont think anything has ever made more sense than this does

#cilantromixture #jacob collier

[yournameoneverypage]

#shawn mendes #shawn peter raul mendes #jacob collier #i don’t remember seeing this picture before

[lewisossokoh]

MULTICOLOR IN MUSIC VIDEOS

#multicolor #music #music video #video #multicolors #rihanna #cardi b #bruno mars #solange #beyoncé #missy eliiott #jacob collier #erykah badu #placebo #kesha #kpop #gorillaz #harry styles #robyn #pussycat dolls #nicki minaj #kelis #billie eilish #björk #busta rhymes #teyana taylor

[louisupdates]

Louis Tomlinson followed Jacob Collier on Instagram [20.3.2024]

#jacob collier #louis instagram #instagram follows #20.3.2024 #louis tomlinson

[dontbelasagnax]

God. Djesse Vol 4. Holy fucking shit. Jacob Collier is a creative genius and I will never be the same.

#break from my regularly scheduled codywan kiss posting because oh my god #no one ever jacob collier blogs here but i will for them #jacob collier #lasagna rambles

[iconuk01]

One has to admire Jacob Collier's absolute commitment to wearing the most luridly colourful outfit at any and all opportunities.

Proof that if you're talented enough (and he is) and cute enough (and he is) you can get away with wearing pretty much anything

#jacob collier

[pammyloumendkens]

Witness Me

#Shawn Mendes #Shawn Peter Raul Mendes #Mendes Army #Jacob Collier #Stormzy

[narcissistcookbook]

jacob collier saying piss kink 👍

#jacob collier

[green-cargaytions]

hozier and jacob collier should collab. for me personally

#notes from the herb garden #hozier #jacob collier

[soop-musical-fool]

Ok I said I would make a pin full of music so here it is

First off, I mentioned KNOWER. It's a long project that started a really long time ago, but their best stuff is probably coming out like right now. As in, they are just about to release a new album, KNOWER FOREVER. The singles on it are incredible, like I'm The President just comes right out the gate with the fattest walkdown I've ever heard from a horn section. The B section makes it feel like I'm enjoying a song like I would a multiple-course meal. Then Crash The Car just transfixes you. Yes, yes, you should listen to those, but don't neglect the fire they put out in 2017 because you owe it to yourself to watch the live sesh of Overtime:

Oh god this post is gonna make viewing my blog super annoying isn't it

Anyway the next thing I gotta mention is Vulfpeck. These guys are famous for scamming Spotify, basically. They released an album full of 30-second tracks of pure silence, just absolutely nothing, titled Sleepify. They got online and said "Yo guys, help us raise money for a free concert by listening to this on loop while you sleep." What they were actually doing was exposing a loophole in the way Spotify calculated royalties, and before they could pull the album (citing "content policy violations," of course), Vulfpeck had already bagged around $20,000, so they put on the completely admission-free Sleepify Tour, which was incredibly fucking based of them.

Vulf went on to become several spin-off projects, all entirely independently released and full of some of the stankiest funk fusion that I cannot stop listening to.

My favorite of these projects, The Fearless Flyers, is headed by Cory Wong, with a guitar idol of mine for 5+ years Mark Lettieri and of course the government subsidized active bass of Joe Dart, but the keystone of the group is no doubt Nate Smith on drums. Dude makes a three-piece set onstage sound like a full kit.

Like just look at what they can do with the added power of sax:

And yeah, I could just talk about those guys, but let's get weirder.

I'm talking modal. The kind of stuff that makes my choir-trained mother cringe inward at the dissonance. Let's talk about the crunchiest, most feral fucking harmonies and keyboard solos that make you question what you thought you knew about chord progressions and key centers.

Obviously anyone super into this stuff will have already heard of Jacob Collier, so I won't show him. But THIS:

I listened to this the first time and it was just.. too much. I put it in its own specific playlist titled "very complex shit" immediately. When I went back to it, enough time had passed and I had learned enough that after way too many listens I can actually follow along with this insanity. This track blew my fucking mind, dude. I have never heard a chorus use so many of the 12 chromatic notes and still sound heavenly. The groove changes add so much texture. The flute solo goes off way too hard. The slower final section is just disgusting syncopation when the drums come back in. Everything about it is incredible, and this album came out in 2007. I am staring back at years of my life I spent not listening to this and ruminating my lack of music theory knowledge. And when I wanted to see if some kind transcribing jazz grad student like June Lee had uploaded anything of System, I found a 2020 reboot with 24 musicians playing System for over twice its original runtime, and guess who did the showstopping final solo??

JACOB FUCKING COLLIER.

Look him up if you don't know. The other musicians I obsess over inspire me. This guy makes me want to quit.

#196 #r196 #rule #music #jazz funk #modal jazz #free jazz #jacob collier #music nerd #infodump #like massive autistic infodump #sorry again for this #oh btw #did you notice the four grammys behind him? #yeah

[thetrusouldj]

#jacob collier #shawn mendes #stormzy #kirk franklin #witness #Youtube