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GLORY SOUND PREP: JON COMES CLEAN

                                 
 
     As I type this am almost done listening to Glory Sound Prep so I wanted to talk about what I could gather from the eight songs I’ve listened to so far. First of,this album feels like a mix-tape, it’s not trying to be over the top or mind blowing, It’s just Jon trying to pass a message and I get it. Granted, coming of the Human Condition I really wanted him to go big again but it’s all good….I think.
Maybe it’s just me(a fan) expecting a lot from him and that is one of the many things he doesn’t want at this point in his life and maybe that’s okay.


Glory Sound Prep is a really cool listen, with this paragraph am at track nine so let me just come out clean,my expectations are bloody high for the tenth and final track. I mean, it’s bloody 8 minutes long, He wouldn’t make something that long if he didn’t want to pull the rug from under my legs and blow my mind,right? I really think he’s tired because, after his last project he was blowing up and a lot of people started pressurizing him and saying things like he’s underrated and he says he doesn’t want to be popular. Jon says he doesn’t want to be famous but successful and it stuck with me because a lot of artists are out here getting pulled up into drama and the negative effects of Fame.


Guess what? I’m at the final track, it sounds good. A lot of dope instruments, cool voice overs. I like it….so far(I think). I really wish that this was like a set up for an album called “Glory Sound” and this could be like him prepping for it. Either way, this album basically tells us that Jon loves the ordinary life, he’s married now and He wants to live a calm and happy life. He talks about God, the internet and how he wants his life to be grounded and not feel controlled by people who don’t even care if he’s happy. Like a lot of other artists with beautiful minds, he sees through the bullshit side of being famous.


Yo! I can hear the tune from the first teaser he released but without the Stormzy voice over. Now that I’m pretty much done listening to it, This wasn’t what i expected, I’m not just enjoying  it as much as I thought I would but I guess it takes multiple listens to truly judge a musical project.
There is no Hand of God-esque outro but they are still heart warming songs like Stupid deep, Let’s begin, Cautionary tales and Conversation’s with me wife but, most of them are just so short and it really pisses me off. I don’t know if am disappointed or I haven’t just digested the message well enough yet.


Jon is one of my all time favorite artists, from Translation Through Speakers to The Seperation and then The Human condition, all of his previous work have stuck with me and so I really hope the personal issues he addresses in Glory Sound Prep aren’t in any way hinting at a retirement because, I want full videos for most songs on this album and hopefully they’re animated(all the promos were). I also want longer songs from time to time, features and many more projects from him


Glory Sound Prep didn’t resonate with me the way I would have hoped but maybe that’s on me for placing him on such an unrealistic high place, him wanting the album to be that way or maybe it was simply because of his long Hiatus, either way I’ll keep bumping to it louder in order to get more translations through speakers(see what I did there?) in order to fully understand the purpose of this record.

Have you listened to GSP? Did you like it? Did you hate it? Or are you stuck in the middle like me. Leave a comment and tell me what you thought of it and my semi live reaction blog post!. Au Revoir!

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