Jay Som

Jay Som may be the overall performance pseudonym of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Melina Duterte. The California Bay Region indigenous creates lush, melodic bedroom pop remindful of contemporaries like Alex G and Very long Beard. She started writing and posting music on MySpace while in middle college, cycling through numerous monikers as time passes until she ultimately settled around the name Jay Som. It had been made up of the Wu-Tang Titles Generator (the same site that switched Donald Glover into Childish Gambino). Duterte published some singles beneath the name to music-sharing site Bandcamp in the first 2010s before liberating “a assortment of completed and unfinished tunes” called BECOME, that was co-released on cassette by Influx Dweller and Topshelf Information. Jay Som was quickly authorized to Polyvinyl, which reissued the occur July 2016 as she started work on the official debut. For the time being, she toured the U.S. and Canada to get indie artists such as for example Mitski and Peter Bjorn and John. Duterte released her recognized debut, Everybody Functions, in 2017, even though it designed for a more refined companion to carefully turn Into, it maintained its bedroom elegance.