Ajo Sunshine, by J.R.C.G.

Ajo Sunshine

by J.R.C.G.

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Pre-order of Ajo Sunshine. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

Purchasable with gift card

releases November 19, 2021

$7 USD or more

1.	I.L.W.T.W.
2.	Rainbow 03:09	buy track
3.	Holy Hope 04:37	buy track
4.	V
5.	De La Frontera
6.	Brother Was A Bullrider
7.	Ajo Sunshine
8.	Lowrider
9.	Bopp
10.	Olga
11.	Brown Boy
12.	Love Is A Drum

about

Ajo Sunshine (say it with me folks, “Ahh-Ho”) is heralded by an alarming horn ensemble, stabbing with the dramatic urgency of a killer’s theme in a midnight movie. It’s a jarring but appropriate entry point for this brilliantly blasted listen, an array of exquisitely sharp edges punctuated by kaleidoscopic respites of throbbing warmth and surprising tenderness. J.R.C.G. (Justin R. Cruz Gallego)’s previous work with Seattle’s excellent Dreamdecay may foreground the broad strokes here, but he’s pushed things way outward in terms of his sonic palette. Abutting field recordings captured from rodeos off Ajo Way, a stretch of highway that leads you westward out of Tucson Arizona directly into the sun, both acoustic instruments and gleaming walls of synthetic noise are framed in dour and dissonant chord shapes, crackling with overdriven drum mics and seasick waves of distortion. It’s homage that plays out like a collage, a dream switching from station to station, a series of dedications broadcast on late night radio. All pin-hole size images from scenes never seen whole, strung together in but one version of complete. It all makes for a dazzling listen and it’s out on Castle Face November 19th

credits

releases November 19, 2021

license

total		USD

about

J.R.C.G. Tacoma, Washington

contact / help

Contact J.R.C.G.

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like J.R.C.G., you may also like:

Present Tense
by FACS

supported by 4 fans who also own “Ajo Sunshine”

Present Tense is exceptionally dark and well driven into the skull so you have no way to return. Classical clever rock music which makes it so pulsating,very punkish and abstract noise makes this album a real gem. Darknight
go to album
Ookii Gekkou
by Vanishing Twin

featured on Bandcamp Radio Sep 28, 2021
go to album
Chain Reaction
by Catherine Moan

Melancholic electro-pop with a nostalgic, dreamy feel from Philadelphia producer and singer-songwriter Catherine Moan. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 28, 2021
go to album
re:lapse.ep
by re:lapse

The debut EP from Tokyo group re:lapse delivers four gorgeous shoegaze songs, with billowing clouds of guitar cradling far-off vocals. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 27, 2021
go to album
Nebenkörper
by Vlimmer

The striking synth/goth songs on the latest from Vlimmer feel 50 stories tall, with gigantic walls of sound and bleak, ominous vocals. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 26, 2021
go to album
Tales From The Telescope Chapter 1
by Lance Skiiiwalker

Signed to Top Dawg Entertainment, Lance Skiiiwalker serves up a hallucinogenic EP full of psychedelic soul. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 26, 2021
go to album
Aftertouch
by Absolutely Free

The songs on the latest from Absolutely Free feel as expansive as a cloudless sky, with ringing guitars and bright-eyed melodies. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 25, 2021
go to album