Low Light Music

JJ make music that sounds like it was recorded in a room where the windows had fogged over from the inside—layered, slightly muffled, Joanna Svensson’s voice sitting somewhere above the mix like it’s not quite committed to being heard. It’s a strange quality for pop music, that restraint. When jj n°2 came out it felt like someone had figured out a way to make songs that were genuinely quiet without being boring, which is harder than it sounds.

"You Know" has that JJ quality where the emotional temperature keeps shifting depending on when you hear it and what week you’re having. Certain or resigned? Missing someone or relieved they’re gone? The music never says, and that’s exactly why it works on repeat. I’ve never fully resolved what I think of them, and I suspect that’s the whole point.