{"id":65695,"date":"2020-10-22T12:17:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T11:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=65695"},"modified":"2020-10-22T12:17:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T11:17:03","slug":"lunacys-back-with-first-single-from-upcoming-album-by-alaskan-artist-paul-jacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/10\/lunacys-back-with-first-single-from-upcoming-album-by-alaskan-artist-paul-jacks\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lunacy&#8217;s Back&#8217; With First Single From Upcoming Album By Alaskan Artist Paul Jacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8216;Lunacy&#8217;s Back&#8217; is the new single from Alaskan multi-instrumentalist Paul Jacks. Out now, it&#8217;s taken from his upcoming album, &#8216;Black Jackal&#8217;, which is set for release on December 4, through Tritone Records.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jacks received critical acclaim for his second solo album, &#8216;In Other Words&#8217;, and should do likewise for &#8216;Black Jackal&#8217;, if &#8216;Lunacy&#8217;s Back&#8217; is anything to go by. The record is a concept album, which sees him take on a futuristic persona drawn from Egyptian mythology, as he delves into\u00a0 the transition to the afterlife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Lunacy&#8217;s Back&#8217;, the first taster of the album, was originally written in 2003, and it&#8217;s clear from the very start that Jacks has put everything he has into this album. A massive tune, it opens with with drum machine rhythms &#8211; a repeated keyboard phrase, joined by a 4\/4 time beat, which is in turn augmented by a hand-clapping tone &#8211; and that&#8217;s just in the first 10 seconds. It starts to swell instrumentally at about the 30 second mark, where it&#8217;s joined by more drums, trumpets, and Jacks&#8217; swirling vocals. There&#8217;s a really pleasing echo effect added to his voice, which gives the already large tone an additional fullness, perhaps even a roundness. We&#8217;re put in a dreamlike state; it&#8217;s a fantastic opener to an album &#8211; your senses are heightened and you&#8217;re put in the mood for more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking about the album, Jacks says it represents our &#8220;journey into the dark to discover the light which has the power to transform us&#8221;. Although Paul Jacks is a multi-instrumentalist, he&#8217;s brought in Dan Konopka, of OK Go, to help out on the live and electronic drums.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Lunacy&#8217;s Back&#8217; is out now. &#8216;Black Jackal&#8217; is set for release on December 4, through Tritone Records. You can find out more about Paul Jacks online on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pauljacksmusic\/\">Facebook<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tritonerecordsak\/\">Tritone Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Listen to &#8216;Lunacy&#8217;s Back&#8217; below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paul Jacks &quot;Lunacy&#039;s Back&quot; by Team Clermont\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F898922866&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Lunacy&#8217;s Back&#8217; is the new single from Alaskan multi-instrumentalist Paul Jacks. Out now, it&#8217;s taken from his upcoming album, &#8216;Black Jackal&#8217;, which is set for release on December 4, through Tritone Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":65705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,21455,9,21453,21445,21446],"tags":[2684,26257,11720,26256,1731,144,370,18104,116,10677],"class_list":["post-65695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-albums","category-new-releases","category-new-singles","category-reviews","category-single-reviews","tag-alaska","tag-black-jackal","tag-lisa-hafey","tag-lunacys-back","tag-multi-instrumentalist","tag-new-album","tag-new-single","tag-paul-jacks","tag-review","tag-single-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-h5B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65801,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/10\/paul-jacks-black-jackal\/","url_meta":{"origin":65695,"position":0},"title":"Paul Jacks &#8211; &#8216;Black Jackal&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"30\/10\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"We wrote about Paul Jacks a mere week ago, with his single, 'Lunacy's Back'. 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