Quickly Quickly - The Long & Short of It (Forest Green Vinyl) - VINYL LP

Double vinyl LP pressing. In honor of the 20th anniversary of rapper/Ruff Ryder's first lady Eve's critically acclaimed and landmark platinum-selling album Scorpion, Interscope/UMe will a reissue of the original album. Album Tracks 1. Cowboy 2. Who's That Girl? 3. Let Me Blow Ya Mind 4. You Had Me, You Lost Me 5. Got What You Need 6. Gangsta B* 7. That's What It Is 8. Scream Double R 9. Thug in the Street 10. No, No, No 11. You Ain't Gettin None 12. Life Is So Hard 13. Be Me

Portland, Oregon-based musician Graham Jonson started early playing piano as a toddler, finding the music of J Dilla in fifth grade, and self-releasing singles by age 16. First appearing under the name quickly, quickly in 2017, his project's profile has since grown fervently with fans in the 'chill beats'-oriented corners of SoundCloud, YouTube, and Reddit. Some of his early tracks tally north of 10 million plays on Spotify. The figure isn't meant to flex as much as it is to point out that Jonson's work has resonated without the traditional industry levers; he is a wunderkind DIY internet success story, but, by his own assessment at the present age of 20, he's only now getting serious. With The Long And Short Of It, his Ghostly International debut, Jonson reinvents his project as a full-fledged songwriter, vocalist, and arranger, playing nearly everything from drums to keys and guitar. The resulting sound straddles jazz, hip hop, R&B, and psych-pop while suggesting a wholly genre-less path forward. Recorded during and after a short-lived move to Los Angeles, songs find Jonson cool and comfortable, navigating the planes between anxiety and apathy, distance and desire with lyrical vulnerability and introspection.A student of the Stones Throw catalog (his favorite is Madlib's Quasimoto), Jonson remains rhythm-driven at heart, trusting his instincts in this new palette of organic instrumentation and verse-chorus structure. Tracks glide and bump with tasteful care to tempo as his scene-building and storytelling knack comes into focus. Jonson's past material often suited passive listenership, the kind of bedroom produced beat music that offers secondary utility and function as a companion to primary activities. The Long and Short of It showcases an evolutionary step into a style that uses chops cultivated in that niche that demand a more active listenership. That attention

Graham Jonson is drawn to the comforts of melody and noise. How the two conspire in tension, tonally and atonally, stirring up memory and mood. This quality animates the technicolor world of quickly, quickly, the psych-pop project that emanates from Kenton Sound, his basement studio in Portland, Oregon. InchEverywhere your eye lands, there's another curio to marvel over,Inch noted Pitchfork's Philip Sherburne when he visited Jonson's recording space for a Rising feature just after the of his Inchstrikingly originalInch 2021 debut LP, The Long and Short of It. Since then, Jonson formed a live band, released his Easy Listening EP in 2023, and navigated the up-and-downs of a young musician, the sustainability of tours and relationships. While shaped by personal bouts and fallouts, his highly-anticipated full-length follow-up finds Jonson making music that's universal, open-ended, and rewarding, like great songwriters can do. He set out to make a folk album but couldn't help coloring it in with noise; a confluence of rich instrumentation and unexpected sounds. Ambitious yet intimate, hi-fi yet homespun, the idiosyncratic songs on I Heard That Noise curve around the contours of everyday life with warmth, wit, and dissonance. Album Tracks 1. I Heard That Noise 2. Enything 3. Take It from Me 4. This House 5. This Room 6. Beginning Band Day One 7. I Punched Through the Wall 8. Hero 9. Raven 10. Drawn Away 11. You Are