How’s Life is the third full length record from Pacific Coliseum. Released on Let’s Play House, the album traverses balearic, house and ambient sounds, while maintaining the warmth and melody that we’ve come to expect from this project.
Feel-good, chilled-out disco and downtempo to soundtrack the holiday you wish you could be on. Canadian artist Jamison Isaak, better known as Teen Daze, has used the Pacific Coliseum alias to reinvent himself as something of a house producer, but the trademarks of his music—beautiful textures, sun-kissed melodies and tight arrangements—are still intact.
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Allusions to these forms come through loud and clear at points across "How's Life", a suite of 12 club-ready tracks drenched in midi jazz-funk, classic house and new age reference points. That said, club-ready is probably a bit of a red herring, because these songs have a tender, introspective quality that simultaneously locates them on the slightly more uptempo side of the chillout lounge - chair-dancing groovers that can, in the right context, heat up into something more potent and powerful. Get you a Coliseum that can do both.
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Before this illness was but a blip on the radar, before this epidemic became pandemic, we were looking forward to sharing this LP, Pacific Coliseum's How's Life, with you because, simply, it is a joy, but now it's taken on new, prescient dimensionality, and we're looking forward to it even more.
Before, it was a salve, a relief from the monotony of daily life and the troubles that burden us, but now it is an antidote to the physical isolation we're experiencing. It's an inward-looking album, one that's gentle and tender, but it's not quiet. It's full of life, color, spirit; its purpose is to take the emotion on the inside and connect it with the bright, miraculous world on the outside.
Full of jazzy melodies and funky riffs and easy drums that land with a measured poof rather than a aggressive pop, it is, we are certain, what you need right now.
You can download the digital version of the LP from Bandcamp. The vinyl edition is sold out through Let’s Play House, but is available through a handful of record stores.