Jamaican Queens introduced us to their turbulent pop two years ago with the release of Wormfood. After garnering acclaim and winning over new fans on national and European tours, the band started working on a follow-up. The resulting album, Downers, is a drug cocktail equal parts elation and depression with heaving, fuzzy synth lines…
Late last year, Detroit Music Magazine had the pleasure of premiering the trailer for Jamaican Queens’ upcoming “Bored + Lazy” video, and now the genre-defying group have released the full clip. As directed by local filmmaking duo The Right Brothers, the video depicts a wild night out in the city, including stops at UFO…
The Jamaican Queens camp have been pretty quiet since the release of Wormfood almost two years ago, save for a recent single and various remixes. Since then the band have garnered quite the following, taking their trademark brand of pop on tour nationwide and abroad. “Joe” is a different animal entirely. Gone are the…
Since releasing their debut album, Wormfood, just over two years ago, the Detroit-based band Jamaican Queens have earned critical acclaim and become Motor City music royalty. But the group appears unbounded – either by city limits or stylistic conventions. Despite the title of their recently released single, “Bored + Lazy,” Jamaican Queens are…
Unlike the steady but assured ascent of their career’s trajectory over the past few years, the latest single from Detroit “trap-pop” group Jamaican Queens begins in fits and starts, as if trying to find its footing. The track’s title, too, indicates some degree of uncertainty — “Bored + Lazy” — with the punctuation a (plus) sign that there’s…
Detroit electronic group Jamaican Queens have released a visual component to “Wellfleet Outro” – a track from their spring 2013 release Wormfood. Directed by Andrew Miller, and created and produced by The Right Brothers, the music video examines the many different variables of a romantic relationship. This slow-motion-moving visual piece offers instances…