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- Summary: The latest full-length release from indie artist Jay Som features guest appearances by Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins and Paramore's Hayley Williams.
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- Record Label: Polyvinyl
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Oct 13, 2025A record that perfectly shows her growth as an artist - and a collaborator - ‘Belong’ proves to be more than worth the wait.
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Oct 9, 2025Belong is a welcome addition to Jay Som's discography, and will undoubtedly solidify her reputation as your favourite pop singer's favourite pop singer.
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Oct 9, 2025‘Belong’ has an easy-on-ear feel that is combined to a rich audio quality. But it’s more than just studio magic – Jay Som has rarely written with more confidence, rarely expressed herself with more bravery.
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Oct 9, 2025The record’s sequencing underlines its restless thesis: the solemnity of Appointments melts into the weightless bounce of Drop A, a movement from stasis to momentum central to Duterte’s embrace of flux. Past Lives, buoyed by Hayley Williams’ harmonies, erupts into a scale Jay Som once shied from, before collapsing into the spectral murk of D.H.
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Oct 10, 2025Fittingly – and thankfully – she still resists playing into anyone’s hands, offering a statement that’s at once both delightfully palatable and explores new corners of her sound. What’s more, they’re clearly the corners that interest and excite her.
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Oct 9, 2025Belong is full of lyrics about being on the outside looking in, a perspective that gives context to its skillful mix of angsty and dreamy textures.
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Oct 9, 2025Even if the album largely sets aside the impeccable hook-craft of previous work, the sequence is indeed sonically and thematically compelling.