{"id":974219,"date":"2019-12-31T10:22:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T17:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=932558"},"modified":"2019-12-31T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T17:22:17","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-jelani-aryehs-patagonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-jelani-aryehs-patagonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need To Know: Jelani Aryeh\u2019s \u2018Patagonia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/jelani.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Over the relatively brief runtime of \u201cPatagonia,\u201d Jelani Aryeh covers a staggering range of emotions. In the course of a single verse, he\u2019ll pivot from plaintive, open-hearted crooning to near-sneering swagger, all over a fluid beat that brings its stuttering drums in and out with abandon. Jelani is only 19 \u2014 it\u2019s hard to sing with a voice this pure without some youth on your side \u2014 but he\u2019s put together a debut EP, <em>Helvetica<\/em>, with the confidence of a much more established artist. He\u2019s difficult to categorize in the genre-agnostic mold of Frank Ocean, and cites artists like Kevin Abstract and Toro Y Moi as his primary influences, likely as much for their multi-disciplinary DIY approach to creating art as for their music itself. Though there\u2019s a lot to like on <em>Helvetica <\/em>(\u201cEarl Grey\u201d in particular is another standout), \u201cPatagonia\u201d is the ideal introduction to his music: earnest and deft and full of promise.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jelani-aryeh-patagonia-932558\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the relatively brief runtime of \u201cPatagonia,\u201d Jelani Aryeh covers a staggering range of emotions. In the course of a single verse, he\u2019ll pivot from plaintive, open-hearted crooning to near-sneering swagger, all over a fluid beat that brings its stuttering drums in and out with abandon. Jelani is only 19 \u2014 it\u2019s hard to sing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 07:22:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}