You’re feeling lost, stuck, and hopeless like there’s no way out of whatever place or feeling you’re trapped in. This is the somber mood Joji creates in his new EP In Tongues, released November 3rd, 2017. The new EP is made up of six different

tracks: “Will He,” “Pills,” “Demons,” “Window,” “Worldstar Money (interlude)” and “Bitter.” After releasing many singles over the years, this is credited as Joji’s first major release.

Throughout the EP it continuously provides a somber and dreary mood with the lo-fi hip-hop instrumentals and the vocals that seem almost fused together with the track which works well to provide a feeling of almost being submerged into each one of his songs, and all of these instrumentals are conducted pretty similarly other than the tracks “Bitter” and “Worldstar Money (interlude).” While every other track provides a lo-fi hip-hop beat that feels more dark and heavy, the song “Bitter” is almost a lo-fi beat mashed with an acoustic guitar and creates an instrumental that sounds like it was never quite finished. While on the other hand the instrumental on “Worldstar Money (interlude)” feels less infused with the instrumental providing more of a contrast between the vocals and is one of my favorites on the album because it really stands out from everything else. However most of the tracks on this album leave you kind of wanting more and disappointed, the vocal performances are lacking for what he’s done in the past on tracks like “Thom” and “Rain” on me where he uses much more voice inflection and range in vocals and the instrumentals really leave something to be desired as they aren’t anything special and really don’t stand out these flaws really show in the track Window which is extremely lackluster both instrumental and vocals wise and doesn’t show what he can do and is capable of as an artist. Overall this album is great and is easily worth listening to.