?This is the sound of letting go? might be the best way to describe this debut album/EP from long-time video-essayist YouTuber Jacob Christensen (i.e., nakey jakey). Every since the COVID pandemic happen jakey has been dealing with a lot more than he probably leads us onto with the complete drop off in videos, announcements of music with no music to come, and especially the supposed release of this album way back in February. ROMCOM seems more like an acceptance and a final moving on from all the pain and hurt he has been experiencing really since he started his YouTube channel and accumulated over the last few years. Jakey has always been a truly innovative YouTube talent and had a lot of promise in his music and with this debut EP/album you can tell the potential is still there. ?Drive Off a Bridge? showcases some tight sampling of that chanting sorority video and various video game samples which it carries over to the more lowkey ?Like Totally Freak Me Out?. Plus ?Survival Horror? might be the best track he has released with ?Reeboks Or the Nikes? not too far behind. However not all is sunshine and rainbows since ?Every Day? is a pretty underwhelming and underwritten track and ?Tommy Hanks? has some very annoying audio edits. Plus, the closer ?Fat Head? feels out of place. With that said I think it is incredible to finally have the album that he says mentioned: ?Reeboks Or the Nikes?, which he has been working on since 2016. Hopefully, he can finally feel a chapter close, and he can move forward and gain better control of his mental health.
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