SATURDAY JUN 30, 2018
Media Jeweler
"As proven with "Autopilot"—a lively, playful cut from Media Jeweler's forthcoming debut $99 R/T Hawaii—the Santa Ana, Calif. quartet subscribe to instrumental rock’s "felicity is bliss" school of thought. Fleet, nagging guitars and regal horn charts form a sonic pulse that’s urged along by a limber rhythm section; the song doesn’t so much pound as it slips, skids, and surges, accruing a kinetic static electricity. A true fiesta for the ears, "Autopilot" quotes the jammy expansiveness of late Baltimore outfit Ponytaileven as it makes space for swift digressions into funk, acid jazz, bossa nova, and math rock. In just three and a half minutes, Media Jeweler seem to circle and crisscross the known universe multiple times, delivering a wordless reverie as all-out ecstatic as a GIF of Snoopy’s happy dance." -Pitchfork
"As proven with "Autopilot"—a lively, playful cut from Media Jeweler's forthcoming debut $99 R/T Hawaii—the Santa Ana, Calif. quartet subscribe to instrumental rock’s "felicity is bliss" school of thought. Fleet, nagging guitars and regal horn charts form a sonic pulse that’s urged along by a limber rhythm section; the song doesn’t so much pound as it slips, skids, and surges, accruing a kinetic static electricity. A true fiesta for the ears, "Autopilot" quotes the jammy expansiveness of late Baltimore outfit Ponytaileven as it makes space for swift digressions into funk, acid jazz, bossa nova, and math rock. In just three and a half minutes, Media Jeweler seem to circle and crisscross the known universe multiple times, delivering a wordless reverie as all-out ecstatic as a GIF of Snoopy’s happy dance." -Pitchfork