Well, this is a pleasant surprise. The mysterious lo-fi electronic pop artist Jai Paul unexpectedly released his self-titled debut album on his bandcamp page last night. Up to this point, Jai Paul's three year career has literally consisted of two songs that have been good enough to get him massive recognition and single releases on one of the UK's biggest indie labels XL Recordings (home of Vampire Weekend, The xx, Jack White, and Adele among others). That song, "BTSU", known by most as the "Don't Fuck With Me" song, was also sampled by Drake on his song "Dreams Money Can Buy".
So yeah, this has been a highly anticipated album, or at least people get excited about it every time they listen to either "BTSU" (track 16) or his excellent song from last year, "Jasmine" (track 9). And here it is, stuttering beats, off-the-wall samples, lots of effects, excellent pop songs and all. Listen to and download it below.
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"I know I've been gone a long time, but I'm back and I want what is mine." -Jai Paul
