<p>The fact that Matthew Dear’s second-ever release as Jabberjaw (and his first for Spectral Sound) is called Garden of Eden is no mistake—the music reflects a back-to-basics approach, displaying bracingly minimal textures and primal repetition in a way that makes Dear’s Jabberjaw alias unique.</p> <p>“A Goat on Fire in the Garden of Eden” opens the EP on an absurdist note, as a gently scuffed kick drum gets company from a barnyard’s worth of odd, rhythmic sounds, from a slowed-down glass harmonica to a monster with the hiccups. It gets noisy in there, but Jabberjaw keeps things loose and funky underneath the polyrhythmic melee. “The Connie Shake” is a shaggy-limbed take on soul, featuring a pared-down beat, some lite-jazz keys, and an eerie police siren. “Safety Flirt” is the Garden of Eden EP’s strangest and most compelling moment, dripping tiny squelches and snare hits into the spaces within a sly, slinky micro-beat. The song gains momentum as the off-beats accumulate, turning a simple minimal house beat into a hissing, burbling serpent of a track.</p> 2009-10-09T12:26:28-04:00 jabberjaw-the-garden-of-eden 9561752 Music 2009-10-13T10:10:59-04:00 2009-11-17T06:39:23-05:00 Jabberjaw Audion, Jabberjaw, Matthew Dear, SPC-78 The fact that Matthew Dear’s second-ever release as Jabberjaw (and his first for Spectral Sound) is called Garden of Eden is no mistake—the music reflects a back-to-basics approach, displaying bracingly minimal textures and primal repetition in a way that makes Dear’s Jabberjaw alias unique. “A Goat on Fire in the Garden of Eden” opens the EP on an absurdist note, as a gently scuffed kick drum gets company from a barnyard’s worth of odd, rhythmic sounds, from a slowed-down glass harmonica to a monster with the hiccups. It gets noisy in there, but Jabberjaw keeps things loose and funky underneath the polyrhythmic melee. “The Connie Shake” is a shaggy-limbed take on soul, featuring a pared-down beat, some lite-jazz keys, and an eerie police siren. “Safety Flirt” is the Garden of Eden EP’s strangest and most compelling moment, dripping tiny squelches and snare hits into the spaces within a sly, slinky micro-beat. The song gains momentum as the off-beats accumulate, turning a simple minimal house beat into a hissing, burbling serpent of a track. 2009-10-09T12:26:28-04:00 quack 227 25150332 shopify deny 43 12" + MP3/WAV The Garden Of Eden _ 1 12.00 9561752 true 804297997810 true 2010-02-02T13:19:22-05:00 2009-10-09T12:28:18-04:00 manual 0 25150382 deny 0 WAV A Goat On Fire In The Garden Of Eden SPC78_01_A_Goat_On_Fire.mp3 2 1.99 9561752 true WAVJ70917801 true 2009-11-17T11:08:04-05:00 2009-10-09T12:28:48-04:00 manual 0 25150412 deny 0 WAV The Connie Shake SPC78_02_The_Connie_Shake.mp3 3 1.99 9561752 true WAVJ70917802 true 2009-10-26T22:16:17-04:00 2009-10-09T12:29:15-04:00 manual 0 25150432 deny 0 WAV Safety Flirt SPC78_03_Safety_Flirt.mp3 4 1.99 9561752 true WAVJ70917803 true 2009-11-17T10:49:45-05:00 2009-10-13T11:43:08-04:00 19587162 2 9561752 2009-10-13T11:43:08-04:00 http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0023/2122/products/1.jpg?1268203099 File Format File Name Audio