Credit: Daniel Topete

Jay Som - the project of Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Melina Duterte has returned this week with their brand new single What You Need. Taken from the forthcoming album Belong, which is her first new album in over six years, the track sees an amalgamation of fuzzy guitar lines and towering pop sensibilities draw inspiration from a Peter Bjorn and John song that reminded Joao Gonzalez (Soft Glas) of Duterte’s music, ‘What You Need’ was a result of the pair working together. “Joao created and sent me the basic skeleton for 'What You Need' a couple hours before the fires in LA started,” Duterte says of the new single. “I remember feeling immediately drawn to it, but the uncertainty and danger we were about to face crept up, pulling our focus elsewhere. We eventually revisited the demo a month later, after witnessing how the people of LA came together in its darkest moments -- it felt necessary and only right to create this song with friends.” Take a listen below. 

Belong will be released October 10th via  Polyvinyl Record Co.

Jay Som 2025 Tour Dates 
01 Nov - Amsterdam, NE @ London Calling - Paradiso 
03 Nov - Berlin, Germany @ Kantine am Berghain 
05 Nov - Paris, France @ Pitchfork Paris - Le Trabendo 
06 Nov - Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique - Rotonde 
08 Nov - London, UK @ Pitchfork London - Earth Theatre 
22 Nov - San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo’s 365 Club 
23 Nov - Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey 
02 Dec - Austin, TX @ The Parish 
03 Dec - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada 
05 Dec - Atlanta, GA @ Aisle 5 
08 Dec - Washington, DC @ Atlantis 
9 Dec - Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry 
11 Dec - New York, NY @ Warsaw 
12 Dec - Pittsburgh, PA @ Spirit Hall 
13 Dec - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall 
14 Dec - Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line 
19 Dec - Seattle, WA @ Neumos 
20 Dec - Portland, OR @ Alladin Theater

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