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Flashback Friday Album Review: Djesse Vol. 2
Today’s album review is the first in our Flashback Friday series, where we pull out an older album to review instead of a new release. This past Monday, July 19, 2021, marked the two year anniversary of the release of Jacob Collier’s Djesse Volume 2. It’s one of my personal favorite records, and even now two years later, I find myself listening to it often.
Jacob Collier and the Djesse Project
Jacob Collier is a 26-year-old, self-taught, London-born composer and multi-instrumentalist who got his start on Youtube with viral split-screen harmonies.
Collier has released four studio albums, the first of which In My Room was released in 2016, and he has won five GRAMMY awards. His other three albums are Djesse Vol. 1, Djesse Vol. 2, and Djesse Vol. 3, which are the first three parts of a four-part musical project.
Collier said of Djesse:
“It is an explosion of my imagination — an enormous four-volume project I’ve spent the whole of the…
