Majetic Club Dread Colored Vinyl Edition

Club Dread is not club music. The production on Majetic's new album alludes to
various dance genres but never quite embodies them. Similarly, the characters
populating its ten twilit tracks orbit the nightlife without taking to the dance floor.
Amorphous and peripheral, it's music for the sidewalks adjacent the club_a score for
the bittersweet comedowns. Club Dread marks a transition for Majetic. Formerly
configured as a band, the project has exchanged the name CARE for something
more emblematic of its singular producer, Justin Majetich. The palette's changed too.
Majetic has built Club Dread, his third LP, almost entirely out of electronics. The
result is agile and restrained_a sleeker vessel for the songwriter's vivid lyricism and
emotive pitch. Club Dread was conceived in Oakland, California, and though Majetic
wrote and recorded much of the album upon returning to his home in Queens, New
York, the Bay Area provides a setting for its fractured narratives. There's a glimmer
of the Bay's natural beauty evoked in its open, gilded moments. There's also an
awareness of the racial and economic disparity run rampant against this idyllic
backdrop. Dystopian tension is present throughout Club Dread, and Majetic's vision
of the club is less defined by paradise than it is by vulnerability. But even as the
album combs the margins of tragedy, it feels devoted to healing. In the closing track,
Majetic captures this quiet conviction, singing "Club Dread like nothing bleeds / like
baby gets what baby needs / like violence couldn't find us underground."