Neun—Photography Barbora Mrazkova—Semi Precious – I Lost a Bird

Sleep Deprivation and Walks in a Graveyard – How Fatherhood Shaped the Birth of a New EP

Igloo Mag—By Will Dawkins—Graham Dunning – Quern

Graham Dunning :: Quern (Jollies)

Fringes of Sound—Tam Lin – Fizzy! August 22, 2025

http://www.onthefringesofsound.com/2025/08/tam-lin-fizzy.html

Lost in a Sea of Sound—Jordan Christoff – Mystery Dimensions July 29, 2025

https://lostseasound.blogspot.com/2025/07/jordan-christoff-mystery-dimensions.html

Lost in a Sea of Sound—Matthew Pepitone – Mp3 October 07, 2024

https://lostseasound.blogspot.com/2024/10/matthew-pepitone-mp3.html

Bandcamp Daily—By Joe Muggs—Babak Ahteshamipour – Violent Violins Exposed April 08, 2024

https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/babak-ahteshamipour-violent-violins-exposed-review/

Igloo Mag—By Robin B. James—Babak Ahteshamipour – Mind Flaying Flavored Flails 02/16/2023

Babak Ahteshamipour :: Mind Flaying Flavored Flails (Jollies)

Lost in a Sea of Sound—Carrageenan – Distorted Reality July 29, 2023

https://lostseasound.blogspot.com/2023/07/carrageenan-distorted-reality.html

Tabs Out—by Matty McPherson—Sentry – Perfect Blue Bubbles November 10, 2022 

https://www.tabsout.com/reviews/tabs-out-sentry-perfect-blue-bubbles/

Noise Not Music—Jack Davidson—Geomag – below the river above the air (Jollies, Jul 29 2021)

Review: Geomag – below the river above the air (Jollies, Jul 29)

Cassette gods—By -Ryan—VARIOUS ARTISTS “Content Aware” MAY 21, 2021

https://cassettegods.blogspot.com/2021/05/various-artists-content-aware-jollies.html

A ten-track comp to mark Jollies’s tenth release, Content Awareexists as a perfect reminder of where the wacko electronic label has been and points toward an equally wacko future. I’ve personally enjoyed every Jollies release I’ve been lucky enough to get my hands on to a sublimely thorough extent, and Content Aware is no different. In fact, I’m only familiar with two (!) of the artists on it, Kritzkom and Asymmetrical Head, so that gives me an entire 80 percent of this thing to discover. And if that’s not a good reason to dive into a comp, I don’t know what is.

I mean, it’s really the best reason, especially if you trust the label putting the thing out. And I do. And it is. As usual, the lovely, dank, downtempo electro pulses with intense mood, and each artist makes themself at home on the tracklist. Francine Thirteen’s track is a nice vocal-led torch song, and Jap Kasai gets wildly playful on their quirky contribution. But the overarching aesthetic is fully in line with itself, making Content Aware the perfect tenth-release celebration for Jollies. There’s the uptempo crash of Sentry, the clicky pulse of Kritzkom, and the theatrical synth work of Private Grief, all Jollies tested, all Jollies approved. Why don’t you get in here and discover something for yourself, you savvy listener you?

Cassette gods—Ryan KRITZKOM “Fuzziness” MARCH 15, 2021

https://cassettegods.blogspot.com/2021/03/kritzkom-fuzziness-jollies.html

“That synth crawled outta that hole and had a little peek around before it ran off toward yonder hills.” So says my ancient interlocutor at the gas station off whatever this rural exit this is as he points to Appalachian wilderness behind the dilapidated structure that served these parts as far back as when Eisenhower was president. Truman maybe. That this gray, wizened, coverall-wearing, grease-covered remnant of bygone days even knew what a synthesizer was a mystery to me, but I would save that question for later, maybe. Kritzkom was out here, I knew it.

This is how I ended up here: Fuzziness, a transmission from tape label Jollies, landed in my mailbox, and I immediately knew it originated from somewhere out in the middle of nowhere, even though it was a lo-fi electronic number crafted by Berlin-based French artist Marine Drouan. There was a vibe here that simply stretched across space, way outside of an urban context, calling for free roaming under nothing but trees and sky. And so I devoured Fuzziness, letting it cloud my head, my intentions, like a fog bank, like a scrambled signal from a bunker that held secrets only I was going to be let in on.

I got in the car and drove a few hours, guided simply by the subliminal pulses and minimal techno of Fuzziness, stopping where I did on a hunch. It was the right one, and as I left the man and walked to the back of the building, eyes scanning the scrub brush and tree copses and outcroppings of hills harshly protruding from the ground. A synth emerged from a hole and absconded to a field. What does that even mean? I began to walk, twenty yards, thirty, forty, finding nothing but the land. Then I heard it – it might have been in my head, it might have been in the sky, it might have been coming from directly in front of me: Fuzziness, in its natural habitat. Kritzkom was close. But as I began to step further out into that all-encompassing sound on the wind, my head rang with reverberating tone, and my vision became purple. I blacked out.

I came to next to my car, hands on the hood, breathing heavily, sweating. I could see the old gas station owner through the window of the building, eyeing me with a suspicious look. I nodded, but I was shaken – my legs tingled and my fingers sparked. I tasted metal. Whatever happened to me out there beyond the gas station, where no other human being had ever ventured, stuck with me, overcame me. It was Fuzziness, distilled, uncompromised, in the wild. It was exhilarating.

I chalked it up to unanswerable mystery. Fuzziness, indeed, in its pure form, conjured by Kritzkom, spends its days frolicking in the wilderness behind that old gas station. And while I never actually encountered the entity Kritzkom itself while I was out here, I didn’t really think I was going to in the first place. I just wanted to see what I could see, and the spirit of Kritzkom is enough for me to call this expedition a success.

Cassette gods—Jacob An Kittenplan—African Ghost Valley – “Aam” APRIL 16, 2020

https://cassettegods.blogspot.com/2020/04/african-ghost-valley-aam-c20-jollies.html

Noise Not Music—Jack Davidson—African Ghost Valley – “Aam” March 11, 2020

Review: African Ghost Valley – AAM (Jollies, Mar 5)

Cassette gods–By Jacob An Kittenplan—Mos Fet & Eustress –“These Days” JANUARY 15, 2020

https://cassettegods.blogspot.com/2020/01/mos-fet-eustress-these-days-c31-jollies.html

Tabs Out—By Ryan Masteller—Various Artists – Crash Klang Bang Thang September 6, 2019

https://www.tabsout.com/reviews/tabs-out-various-artists-crash-klang-bang-thang/