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Who is Jo King?
Pop · 2012 · 14 tracks

Who is Jo King?

Fools Garden

Melodic piano-pop with a scientific lyrical edge. A lush, bittersweet collection of songs that balance sixties-inspired hooks with modern existential restlessness.

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It's like if a chemistry professor wrote a really catchy Britpop album about his mid-life crisis.

A thoughtful, slightly intellectual melancholy balanced by bright, classic pop craftsmanship.

Who is Jo King? · vs · Fools Garden
Self Examination+0.9σ

The writing leans a touch further into self examination than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 14 Tracks
01
Someday
4:15
02
Don't Speak (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
0:56
03
How Do You Feel?
4:21
04
Innocence
3:09
05
Song 4
5:25
06
Maybe
3:47
07
Once
3:27
08
Are You Jo King?
1:17
09
Shut
3:26
10
Water
3:43
11
Reason 3.0
5:10
12
Here I Am
4:46
13
She
7:39
15
Innocence (radio edit)
2:55
Moments Worth Waiting For
the sudden surge of energy in Someday where the scientific metaphors give way to a soaring pop resolution
the seven-minute slow-burn of She that pushes the band into more expansive psychedelic territory
the way the brief interludes like Are You Jo King? act as whimsical palate cleansers between the heavier tracks
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