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J / Q

by J / Q

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1.
Introduction 00:35
2.
Inside My Mind If you don't know how I feel than you won't know what its like because you've never been inside inside my mind there are chemicals inside our brains that combine with electricity to make us misbehave but if you take a little pill you'll keep the chemicals restrained... every shadow needs a light source and someone or thing that's real to hide behind there ain't no sunshine shadows die inside my mind there are chemicals inside our brains that combine with electricity to make us misbehave but if you take a little pill you'll keep the chemicals restrained well let me tell you about the way I feel hey, it ain't great but at least I can say that I know it's real but would I be better off another medicated slave? Johnny Northrup: vocals, bass, keys, synths, guitar Q: drums, percussion Alex Hartman: engineering, mix, percussion Elio Deluca: clavinet Adam McGrath: eddie hazel guitar Dana Colley: bass, baritone and tenor saxophones, harmonica
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Sayonara 01:33
Sayonara I don't want to live I don't want to die I've got nothing to give and I've got nothing to hide and still I'm not Man enough to cry While I can still get high and Mick sings Time is on my side You've got your wealth and baby I've got myself I'm afraid for my health I wish I lived someplace else and still I'm not Man enough to cry While I can still get high and Mick sings Time is on my side No one left to cry its just a planetary suicide No one left to wonder why Except for the machines We left behind and maybe they'll do better Than their predecessors When its their time to rise Sayonara human beings its the dawn of machine I look at the world and then I look at my girl I see an ocean of shit and she's the singular pearl. Johnny Northrup: vocals, bass, synths, baritone guitar Q: drums, percussion, roto tom Alex Hartman: engineering, mix, farfisa, percussion Michael Gowell: lazer lead guitars
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Snow Day 02:13
Snow Day
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I smoked a second hand cigarette. I found it on the ground and the filter was still wet. I know what you must think but baby I don't really care. I'd recognize the stain of your lipstick anywhere. I smoked a second hand cigarette I found outside your house after you went in and you didn't really see me cuz I'm not that hard to miss as I shiverd in the shadows with your nicotine-y kiss. This is something for the creepy people. This is something for all you real live ghosts. This is something for all those secrets that we keep so deep down. This is something we can call our own. My love for you is so complex. I see you everyday but you don't know it yet. I'm not out to be your lover; I'm not out for t & a. I save your cigarettes just to collect your DNA. This is something for the creepy people. This is something for all you real live ghosts. This is something for all you sexual pioneers, forging ever onward into virgin territory unexplored......
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Binary Life 04:17
Binary Life Consider that I'm a one 1 and you're a zero 0 it doesn't mean I'm better than you they are both equally valid plains of existence but everybody knows the zero 0 gets screwed. Some would say the zero 0 is a female its really hard to argue or wonder why after all there's a hole there in the middle and the ones 1 are lining up to get together and multiply. This binary life has got me down it's all just black and white day or night fuck or fight and the men who made the world where we dwell believe it heaven and hell and so the code goes on and on.... zero 0 is the youngest of the numbers it holds a place that hasn't begun the shallow man is wading in the deep end because everybody knows you've got to look out for number one 1. This binary life has got me down it's all just black and white day or night fuck or fight and the men who made the world where we dwell believe it heaven and hell and so the code goes on and on.... Johnny Northrup: vocals, bass, keys, synths Q: drums Alex Hartman: engineering, mix
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A Savior Of My Own I think that people find Jesus When they need him and I thank God that I haven't really needed him yet but I'll bet someday oh woe... I'll need a savior of my own. A savior of my own. It's not that my bahavior's been that bad but I've got guilt about some things that I did and things I didn't, and I don't believe in hell but I know there's still a debt I owe, there's still a debt I owe. My soul feels so much heavier than it did when I was just a kid before I knew the burden of sin and should I reach to find salvation or just up my medication? I hope that if someday I go looking for Jesus I'll find out that what I'm thinking now was wrong all along when I was thinking I was all alone without a savior of my own, a savior of my own I don't want to be alone no more without a savior of my own. Johnny Northrup: vocals and acoustic guitar (live), feedback Q: drums, percussion Alex Hartman: engineering, mix
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Sex Jam 03:54
Sex Jam Sometimes I get excited Sometime I get upset I'm often so divided but mostly apathetic. but when I use these arms to throw around you you know I'm bleeding with the need to touch the softest places on you and girl, I'm on my best behavior cuz I know she don't like it when I get con-fron-ta-tion-al. Living in the city has made a mess of me I need a taste of pretty she got the recipe. and when I use these arms to throw around you you know I'm bleeding with the need to touch the softest places on you and girl, I'm on my best behavior cuz I know she don't like it when I get con-fron-ta-tion-al. Johnny Northrup: vocals, bass, keys, guitar, synths, marimba, percussion, lo fi engeering Q: hi fi drums, percussion Alex Hartman: hi fi engineering, mix, synths, marimba, percussion Stephen Brodsky: lo fi og drums, percussion Jarret Simon: percussion
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She's an Elf! she's an elf! (she's an elf, she's an elf) she's an elf! (she's an elf, she's an elf) But I wouldn't really do ya like that and I'd never really stab my pretty baby in the back but I did it in my brain and I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed. she's an elf! (she's an elf, she's an elf) and I made her up myself (she's an elf, she's an elf) a loose composite of the girls I'd see at shows coincidently most of them look like the girl I left at home and then I put her in a song so my imaginary friends would sing along my imaginary friends are living, breathing human beings I live in a van with them and at times they pretend to like me but then again maybe its just all in my head a twisted picture in my brain and I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed she's an elf! (she's an elf, she's an elf) I put her up upon a shelf (she's an elf, she's an elf) cuz on the road your standards get a little low you talk to girls you wouldn't fuck with if you were at home its just a little game I play and I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed. Johnny Northrup: vocals, bass, crystals 88 keys Q: drums, percussion Alex Hartman: engineering, mix, percussion Stephen Brodsky: assorted flavors of guitar
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I Can't Wait To meet You And I I can't wait to meet you When you open up those little tired eyes and see me there smiling I can't wait to meet you and your victory cry is the sound of my old world coming down And I'm trying hard to be the kind of man that you would be proud of and I wonder would my father understand just how I'm feeling now and all I ever want to do is to do right and provide for you I want to be your soul provider, to love you and abide by all the changes your bringin on me I can't wait to meet you oh girl I can't wait just to see your face and I know you'll be so beautiful your almost like a miracle And I'm trying hard to be the kind of man that you would be proud of and I wonder would my father understand just how I'm feeling now but just know that all I'll ever ask of you is just to trust me enough to tell me the truth and know I'll always stand beside ya to love you and provide until the day that my heart stops to beat. Oh girl... You'll always be my girl Johnny Northrup: vocals, bass Q: drums Alex Hartman: engineering, mix Stephen Brodsky: guitar Elio Deluca: wurlitzer, hammond organ Tom Quartulli: Tenor Saxophone
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Ghost Town 01:58
Ghost Town She's writing secret messages on bathroom walls to people that she doesn't know. Every night is Saturday; she's all in black, she in the back at every show. And she's so lonely but she knows true love is out there she's not the only one that thinks so as she wraps her legs around another one night only romance. He's the last remaining gentleman a remnant of a rennassaince that never was. Every day is Sunday cuz he always does the right thing, he's his Mother's son. And he's so lonely but he knows true love is out there, he's not the only one that thinks so, but the girls in black are vacant and the women are so cold. Calling all you disillusioned I know there's room for improvement lower your black cloak of hopelessness. Don't ever hang your head, Don't let it get you down, Though we're the living dead Let's haunt eachother in a ghost town. Johnny Northrup: vocals, bass, keys, synths, baritone guitar, acoustic and slide guitar Q: drums, percussion Alex Hartman: engineering, mix, farfisa, percussion Michael Gowell: texture guitar
14.
World Of Sound i wish that i could remove my eyes so to slowly drown in a world of sound. i'd like to tear out my eyes and with my love i'd reside so she could lead me around in our heaven of sound i can move molecules with every insignificant syllable i'd like to rip out my eyes but i'm too pussy to try and all the ugly i see radiates toward me my love would you be so kind as to render me blind and hold my hand as i drown in a heaven of sound i can move molecules but my world of sound could be built for two i could take out your eyes so you could see like i do if you wanted me to all i ever do is move these molecules. Johnny Northrup: vocals, bass, keys, synths, piano, mellotron Q: drums, percussion Alex Hartman: engineering, mix, hammond organ, synths, percussion

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released January 13, 2012

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J / Q :

John Parker Northrup
Q
Alex Hartman


All songs written, arranged,
performed, produced,
recorded, and mixed,
by J / Q

at

Club Awesome, Camp Street Studios,
Charlietown and Q Division.

Additional performances by
(in order of appearance)

Dana Colley
Adam McGrath
Elio DeLuca
Michael Gowell
Stephen Brodsky
Thomas Quartulli

Mastered by Ian Kennedy
at New Alliance East

Art by Michael Crockett
at Hazel Eyes Studios

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J / Q

pronounced (jā kyo͞o) [the slash is silent]

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Johnny Northrup : Lead Bass, Lead Vocals

Q : Lead Drums

Alex Hartman : Lead Synths

Brian Kubota: Lead Synths

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