There's a certain kind of music that feels less like something someone made and more like something you stumbled across by accident. Some strange transmission from a place you didn't know existed. Jai Paul has always had a little of that quality for me, and Headache gives me a similar vibe.

I've been listening to them for a while now and I keep thinking someone will mention them to me or I’ll see someone talking about them on some forum I frequent but so far it’s just been me and my headphones. Musically, I hear bits of Massive Attack, DJ Shadow, and Daft Punk, but it's the strange spoken word monologues that get me. They drift between existential philosophy, complete absurdity, and moments of startling sincerity. Somehow it all works. Highly recommend.

The Beginning of the End
Headache

The Adventurer
French 79

Losing Ground
M83

If October 2nd, 2026 was a song.

I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.

And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”

Kick Stones (The Boys)
Westside Cowboy

The glove compartment is inaccurately named
And everybody knows it

Title And Registration
Death Cab for Cutie

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