"gutta child is an odyssey that feels like a jaunt. In 20 feverish minutes, Gabriel Jacoby coos, raps, rasps, and scats his way through decades of Southern music. Yoking together backwoods blues, bayou funk, and earthy R&B with Dungeon Family bombast, the Los Angeles-based singer and producer pens love letters to the sounds and places that shaped him. He makes roots music that looks to the sky more than the soil, paying it forward by surging up and away, his heritage the jet fuel."
"A self-taught guitarist with roots in South Carolina and Florida, Jacoby brings his lineage to life with studied focus. He and a tight cohort of producers and session musicians layer the songs with relentlessly funky horns, keys, and basslines that appeal directly to hips and feet. The tracks bounce and swing like airboats cutting through swamp water and seem to sway even when still."
gutta child runs twenty feverish minutes during which Gabriel Jacoby coos, raps, rasps, and scats across decades of Southern music. He merges backwoods blues, bayou funk, earthy R&B, and Dungeon Family bombast into concise roots songs that elevate heritage into propulsion. A self-taught guitarist with South Carolina and Florida lineage animates arrangements with funky horns, keys, basslines, guitar licks, record scratches, harmonica, and banjo. Tracks bounce and swing like airboats through swamp water and retain tight edits so each sound functions as a deliberate brushstroke. Lyrics combine downhome idiom, hyperbole, and autobiographical precision grounded in specific Southern images and scenes.
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