Jazmin Bean - Traumatic Livelihood (2024) [FLAC] {Interscope Records 1000141368}
RLSDATE: 2025/07/23 RTLDATE: 2024/02/24
GENRE: Electronic FORMAT: 356 MB
SOURCE: CD RUNTiME: 46:05
RiPPER: EAC 1.8 ENCODER: FLAC 1.5
DRiVE: ASUS SW-16D1X-U ORiGiN: Europe
RELEASE: Interscope Records 1000141368
MATRiX: IFPI L275 GQCS-91464 1
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Kerrang (dot) com adds. . .
Sometimes you listen to an album and the lyrics are so deeply layered in
metaphor and innuendo that you're able to transpose your own real life
experiences - positive or negative - into the music. Other times, however,
the words are so blunt and imagery so stark that you're instantly immersed
in lived experience in chilling, horrific detail. Enter Jazmin Bean, the
ethereal enigma who shot to fame through their hypergore aesthetic and
alt.pop a few years ago, now back with a vengeance after losing themselves
to addiction and abuse, reclaiming their identity both personally and as an
artist.
The black-eyed, bizarro-Barbie look has gone, with Jazmin stripping
themselves back and revealing their true self for the first time. This
symbolic cleansing goes hand-in-hand with the painful truth of Traumatic
Livelihood, where Jazmin leaves no stone unturned in this biography of
brutality. Throughout the record we hear tales of addiction, toxic
relationships, sexual abuse and self-loathing, fastened together with
lyrics that pull no punches like, 'I feel nothing, throw me in the backseat
/ Use me how you need as long as I'm your favourite toy,' or the story of
taking drugs at a funeral on Black Dress, or the harrowing, 'For fucks's
sake I was just a child'.
Jazmin’s experience of being groomed as a teenager underpins the record,
surrounded by their spirals into drug abuse and dependence on toxic,
ultimately dangerous people. Yet, despite the nightmarish lyrical content
like, 'My body's filled with roaches and my nose is long from lying',
sonically it doesn't exist in the shadows. It's shimmering with dreamlike
alt.pop wonder, driven by Jazmin's penchant for a huge, hooky chorus like
on the aforementioned Favourite Toy or Bitch With A Gun. Yet, despite these
orchestrated moments of catharsis, the whole thing feels very organic, with
no set structure, almost like a stream of consciousness with someone
working through their shit, as songs come and go in fleeting moments with
no contrived resolution.
It does feel, however, that Jazmin is in search of their own ending, to put
a full stop on the trauma. This is about redemption and finally being ready
to live the rest of their lives outside of the shadows, something most
visible on You Know What You've Done, as they move from the sorrowful
'Still can't believe you saw my naked body vulnerable' to the point-blank
'I hope you slip and break your neck.'
In truth, these examples are just scratching the surface of all this record
encompasses, as it stands as one of the most unrelenting and unflinching
records of the year, coming from the mind of an artist who finally is just
getting started. On their own terms.
Ripper's Notes:
More pop than the debut, but still very solid outing from the offspring of
Mr. Ginger Wildheart. Dear lord, I hope none of these songs are about him,
but with his well documented issues with drugs in the past, and his well
known tendency to be an asshole, I suspect I'm hoping against hope.
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