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Sep 12, 2017 · Despite his relatively sparse output and his infamously introverted public persona (he stays off social media entirely, and has only given a single interview before, talking to Dazed in 2011), Jai Paul’s style – a semi-lo-fi, almost-artisanal blend of 80s synth pop, guitar-powered soul, and downtempo electronic music – has reshaped the sound of 2010s pop music, both in the underground ...
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Over a decade ago, Jai Paul taunted the interwebs with a premonition disguised as a love song. The demo was titled ‘BTSTU’, and it was hosted on his MySpace page before it would be officially released. Its intricately woven synth-heavy melody opens curtly with a ghostly falsetto that chids, “don’t fuck with me, don’t fuck with me.” As the media cau...
Jai Paul has always been a reclusive cipher. The 30-year-old songwriter, record producer and recording artist bears a public persona has been widely discussed by music media, his ambiguous background and purpose at times overshadowing the ingenuity of his music. While some believe his sense of mystique is carefully calculated, Nao (having worked wi...
Two weeks ago, on June 1, Paul re-emerged with a double B-side with, ‘Do You Love Her Now’ and ‘He’ in all its futuresque electro-soul glory. The first track is a warm, shimmering slow jam, inspired by R&B and soft rock contemporaries. Guided by percussive guitar accents, its emergence is a delicate build, washed with buttery vocal harmonies by Pau...
It has been a long time coming for Paul, who also released a heartfelt note alongside the cache of his unfinished work, titled Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones). “Looking back, it’s sad to think about what could have been, but it is what it is and I had to let go,” he explained. And that is much coming from an artist whose whole shtick was about prioritising ...
Apr 26, 2023 · April 26, 2023. Jai Paul performed live for the first time, at the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Photograph by Amy Harris / AP. In 2009, the Internet was not yet algorithmically ...
Apr 14, 2023 · Notoriously private, Jai Paul made a cameo in Donald Glover’s TV show Atlanta. Photograph: FX. Any sense of momentum, though, was torpedoed in early 2013, when someone purporting to be Paul ...
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Jai Paul. Jai Paul is a British songwriter, record producer and recording artist. His early demo "BTSTU" led to his online discovery and a subsequent recording contract with XL Recordings. Together with its follow-up "Jasmine", these songs have been regarded as influential on underground as well as mainstream pop music in the 2010s.
May 10, 2023 · Paul has grown into a pop myth, and so seeing him incarnate was a jarring proposition, a strange reveal that risked not living up to all the hope and hype. Indeed, reports from his Coachella and ...
Apr 13, 2013 · 13April 2013. Text Michael Cragg. Jai Paul, one of the most hyped and secretive producers in London and beyond, had his album leaked through Bandcamp over the weekend. He emailed us to say that the album was not official, but in the meantime we posted this, his first and only interview, conducted back in January 2011 in response: Back in March ...
