Neon Vice by Jay Sound

If Jay Sound, Herbie Hancock, John Carpenter, Software & Tim Truman made an album together, Neon Vice would be their brain child.  This cinematic & thematic body of work where each track tells a horrific story from Jays mind of how he sees & experiences "The Land Of The Free".

Back with a full length album since 2022’s “HEAT” & “HOME”, Neon Vice coming on album 6 is Jays most politically charged body of work since his 2020 EP “Heal”. As Jay states “Iv been watching on as this nation literally eats it self alive from the inside out, from circus elections, to funding genocides, continued lynchings of Black Americans, silence from Non Black people who continue to profit off Black American Culture, school shootings steadily going up, the unhousing crisis, to societal hypocrisy. I felt this rage inside I haven’t felt in a long time & instead of being destructive I choose to turn all my thoughts & feelings into this.”

Tapping back into the 80s zeitgeist on the political nature of social & injustice issues from The Crack Epidemic, War On Drugs, The Reagan Era. To making parallels to current issues that impact humanity on both systemic & interpersonal level, to provoke thought that many things that have happened In the past are still happening today & impacting us rather we wish to see or not.   

Neon Vice is truly in a league of its own within Jays rogue gallery of body of work, from ethereal compositions like “False Allies”& “Apocalypse Now” to 80s Jazz driven titles like “Veteran Wasteland” & “Digital Conformity”. Neon Vice packs one hell of a radical punch throughout, from a roller coaster of emotions, once again displaying Jays depth of range. Hitting us with his Synth Funk single “Humanity Manipulation” which tackling every day struggles of what it’s like to be human in the U.S.  

This album is not one that was created to make its listeners feel "comfortable" by any stretch, we can feel Jays justified anger, even if it’s displayed in a very artistic fashion musically & sonically. Once again stating that anything Black is political because of the historic nature of what it means to be Black. Neon Vice is meant to disrupt the status quo & sound great doing it for decades to come.

Tracklist

1.	American Nightmares	2:38

2.	Humanity Manipulation	4:20

3.	Smoke & Mirrors	2:24

4.	False Allies	6:21

5.	Societal Hypocrisy (Interlude)	1:58

6.	Laugh Now, Cry Later	7:09

7.	United States Of Oppression	3:38

8.	Digital Conformity	5:08

9.	ACTivists	3:08

10.	Dead Kids, Black Bodies, Thoughts & Prayers	6:18

11.	Right Wing, Left Wing, Same Bird (Interlude)	3:19

12.	Veteran Wasteland	2:41

13.	Sin Of Our Skin	5:25

14.	Capitalism Is Hard	6:03

15.	Apocalypse Now	2:38

16.	Thrill Is Gone	6:27

Credits

released November 1, 2024

Written/Composed/Performed/Mixed: J. Zuberi
Mastered: Landr Studios (Recorded 2022-2024)
Album Art: J. Zuberi

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