Nu Jazz Preview ‘Un Jazz’ (Orange Milk) with Lead Single “369”

Experimental New York group Nu Jazz announce Un Jazz, their second studio album and label debut, out July 24th via Orange Milk. Situated at the underground interstices of free jazz, hardcore and electronic music, Nu Jazz describe Un Jazz as “Woodstock ’99 at Montreux Jazz Festival,” a fragmented amalgam of genres and maximalist noise. It is wartime music for the digital trench: a sharp critique on contemporary life and the power structures that corrode democracy, individuality, and independent thought.

To introduce the album, Nu Jazz share lead single “369.” The track is a jagged waltz, traipsing through simmering lows and frenetic peaks with righteous anger and abandon. It’s a track that brings into focus the band’s singularly inciting sound and everything they’ve been building toward, a restless testament to the unyielding curiosity and perennial outsider status of its members.

With individual projects that have drawn attention from Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily, Artforum, The FADER, Dazed, Document Journal, Resident Advisor, PAPER, and The New York Times, the six members’ aesthetic backgrounds are as disparate as they are complementary. Across the album, Danny Orlowski (Deli Girls) hurls caterwauling screams, their sputtering, blown-out vocals in lockstep with Ryan Easter (WRENS), whose blistering 16th-note abstractions and synth-like effects carve out a new space for the trumpet.

Ben Shirken (29 Speedway, Ex Wiish) uses modular synths and jagged samples to build churning worlds that teem with glimmering fog and propulsive glitchy loops. Adam Turay’s (The Narcotix) incisive riffs bloom and weave, buoyed by a rhythm section of Kevin Eichenberger (CGI Jesus), whose deft bass lines and compositional instincts provide a structural anchor for John Bemis’s (Murderpact) rich rhythmic palette of swing, breakbeat and hardcore influences.

Since forming in 2022, the band have honed their sound through extensive live performances across spaces such as Pioneer Works, Public Records, Long Play Festival, Cafe Oto, Trauma Bar und Kino, Jazz Is Dead, and Hyperreality Festival. Un Jazz is the most realized expression of their convergence: an indefatigable spirit slashed against a timeline so bleak it outpaces any fictionalized dystopia.

Listen to “369” above and stay tuned for more from Nu Jazz ahead of the full release of Un Jazz out July 24th via Orange Milk.

Un Jazz Track Listing:

01. Return of the Rant
02. In My City
03. Sublimation
04. 369
05. Vaporization
06. Rearview
07. Who Do You Work For?
08. Recombination
09. I(V)
10. Civil War

Nu Jazz ‘Un Jazz’ album artwork