Album Launch - Jimbo Jones , We Only Want The Earth

We’d like to invite you to Fidelity Bar and Studio on Monday 3rd November for a pre-release listening party of the sophomore album of DDR member Jamie (aka Jimbo Jones), titled We Only Want the Earth. It will be live streamed on DDR for anyone not able to attend in person.

Event is free - grab a ticket here!

We’d love for you to join, either in person or online, to celebrate the culmination of the past four years of work with everyone who has been part of this project — and, hopefully, find the right home for the album. DDR residents Alba and Tadgh K will be bookending the night with their downtempo selections!

This album flips between the organic and the industrial, stitched together with field recordings and found sounds that detail a bipolar narrative. If you like Bjork, The Streets or LCD Soundsystem there will be something here for you in Jimbo's music!

You can find more details about this Irish Arts Council–funded project below. There’s limited space at Fidelity, so please make sure to grab a free ticket if you plan to attend in person.

We Only Want The Earth Summed up by the statement “Kill the individual, create the collective,” this concept album was born from fear of the political, social, and environmental realities of late-stage capitalism. It’s been a tool for working through those fears, exploring their roots—societal and personal—and imagining futures beyond them. His influences span Émile Durkheim’s On Suicide (1897), Gabor Maté’s In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, and Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics. As Brian Eno put it in a Grantham Institute lecture: “Information is not changing our minds… most people make decisions based on feelings.” This record aims to connect emotionally first, to inspire collective action. _ Jimbo Jones_ Jimbo Jones is a narrative-driven electronic music project. His debut album, The Heat Death of My Hometown, was built from frustration with skyrocketing rents, stagnant wages, and the erosion of cultural spaces, and sonically maps Dublin’s decline due to gentrification and emigration. This record was named one of Nialler9’s top albums of 2021.