Dakota Jones - Black Light Vinyl Record

Track Listings
1 : I Did It to Myself
2 : Blacklight
3 : We Playin Bad Games
4 : Whatcha Gonna Do About It
5 : Medicine
6 : Lord Please
7 : Blackmagic (That Power)
8 : Like That
9 : Down Slow
10 : Noise

Serving as an instant tone setter, debut album from Brooklyn, New York City band Dakota Jones, opens with the line Stretch marks from growing pains with Carter-Jones lamenting the woes of adjusting to adulthood on lead single Did It To Myself - her husky and commanding vocal instantly asserting its place in the spotlight.

The atmosphere soon turns steamy on the flirtatious title track Blacklight, whilst fantasising over a modern-day Bonnie & Clyde love affair the funk- laden We Playin Bad Games packs a punch with its tale of free spirits entwined in a haze of late- night revelry. Elsewhere, stories of caustic heartache twist the knife into wounded blues guitar riffs on Like That and Black Magic (That Power), in which Carter-Jones stoical voice never once faulters as she mourns the memories of a previous flame.

Personal prayer Lord Please recites empowered words of reassurance, and solidarity in the face of injustice erupts into a rallying cry for change on the classic sounding Noise written as a reaction to the 2016 US election. I woke up after the election feeling pure panic and fear in my body, remembers Tristan.

I wanted people in a place of privilege to stand up for what I was feeling, stand up for injustice, stand up for all of the things we need to change as a country. I wanted their rage, and I wanted their noise.