The title comes from Buddhism: a mind that keeps spinning, jumping, never settling. Fitting, since the album began on the night Juju lay awake crying as Trump’s second term loomed and LA burned — until Jojo surprised her the next morning with a song he’d written for her: Wide Awake. They wrote the rest of the record in a matter of weeks, produced by Jonathan Rado (The Lemon Twigs, Weyes Blood, Father John Misty), with no click track, no demos, no detours.
The result is their most LA record yet: poolside sounds, sirens in the distance, a screeching neighbourhood parrot, and an ice cream truck that sounds a little too psychedelic. Fear and comfort on the same record. “A kind of giant hug,” the duo calls it. On December 2nd, you can see it live at PAARD.
