Jupiter One

Jupiter One, Sunshower

With wide range of influences, Jupiter One is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York combining a futuristic style sound and a poppy up beat. K Ishbashi, Zac Colwell, Mocha, David Heilman, and Pat Dougherty formed in 2003 with three albums under their belts, Sunshower released September 18, 2009.

Listeners can understand why Jupiter One first started as just an instrumental band because it joins the beats together as one and not choppy.

Jupiter One’s debut is well produced making this third one, one of the most intreguing to listen to. And, with a rare, synth-tactic, crazed sounds, unfused with an array of influences, they breathe new life into the indie genre

This album can follow any kind of mood, and is an accomplishment for an artist. It’s their sway of many correlated genres that help them to impede these emotions especially through electronic, pop, punk and indie/folk. Jupiter one can be compared with the band Mute Math, sharing the same passion for in depth thought out beats with a strange twist to each one.

The ups and downs of ageless melodies stomping carelessly through each second of the song are nothing more than pure harmonic obsession. This song’s strong suit is located in its catchy chorus surrounded by hand-claps and grind up riffs. A drop in movement can be heard especially a little later in the album.

Favoring “High Plains Drifter Finds the Oracle At Delphi” attracts light drops, basic strung of cords repeated, with a harp and a joining chorus brings your ears forward like a cat. Each line of lyric is like a piece to the puzzle to figure it out but that doesn’t distract you away from the sound. With their added harp to the beat it cleverly combines a balanced melody that is unusual but comprehended.

Placing and comparing this album from genre to different bands, one song in particular “Anna” has a familiar sound, like an 80’s cover band of Naked Eyes playing, “Always Something There to Remind me.” For Jupiter One to have this bounce back, shows possibly the time period they were influenced in and a nice change up for the listener to still enjoy.