: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Joey Dosik : Album.......: Game Winner : : Label.......: Secretly Canadian .. .:.. . Genre.......: Soul : Catnr.......: SC363 . ' Source......: CDEP , ; Rip.date....: 2018-03-03 Str.date....: 2018-02-23 Quality.....: 214kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. The Night Beforeà 1:31 2. Game Winner 4:40 3. Running Away 4:31 4. àThe Big Game 1:44 5. Competitive Streak 3:27 6. Game Winner (Remix) 2:30 7. Northridge Park (Bonus Track) 1:35 8. Game Winner by The JD's (Bonus Track) 4:30 9. Running Away (Stripped Mix) (Bonus Track) 4:20 10. Gentle Giant (Bonus Track) 2:02 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 30:50 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 49.82 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: Joey Dosik didnÆt set out to make a conceptual EP about :, : basketball. It was his first love before music, and some of his : :' earliest memories are of attending Lakers games, but heÆd never ': ,: thought to look to the sport for inspiration. But when Joey blew :, : out his knee during his regular pick-up game and had to undergo : :' reconstructive ACL surgery, he found himself confined to the ': ,: couch, watching a lot of television and waiting to resume his :, : normal life. He gravitated toward basketball, and when he : :' started recording again, he found it seeping into his writing. ': ,: The result is Game Winner, a brisk, emotive collection of songs :, : loosely inspired by the language and lore of the game. : :' ': ,: The marriage of sports and music usually brings to mind corny :, : arena jams or get-hyped anthems. 'Game Winner' is anything but : :' that. At once cool and confident, it mirrors the NBAÆs ': ,: trademark swagger, as well as JoeyÆs journey back to musicùand :, : his belief that he could get there. ItÆs no accident that during : :' this time, Joey immersed himself in gospel to lift his spirits, ': ,: particularly DetroitÆs Clark Sisters. The title track may be :, : about a big win on the court, but its pleading melody and : :' percussive piano point to something larger. ': ,: :, : By nature, Joey isnÆt a solitary creature. HeÆs an inveterate : :' collaborator who has worked extensively with the likes of ': ,: Vulfpeck, Nikka Costa and Miguel Atwood Ferguson, and who is a :, : vital part of an LA scene that updates vintage sounds into a : :' more contemporary context. But Game Winner was a very different ': ,: project with a very different process. And while he enlisted :, : some help as it developed, the lionÆs share of the EP was : :' recorded solo in JoeyÆs home studio. ': ,: :, : Following his surgery, Joey essentially had to build himself : :' back up from scratch. And like an athlete coming back from a ': ,: major injury, it was the finer nuances û those subtle moves and :, : intricacies that make your skills your own û that took the most : :' time and the most sweat. ôIt was my healing space,ö Joey says. ': ,: ôI was recovering from my injury, icing down ten times a day, :, : doing therapy, getting on the exercise bike. One basketball : :' theme turned into another and I realized I was really getting ': ,: into music as therapyà trying to heal myself physically and :, : mentally.ö : :' ': ,: While at times impeccably stylized, Game Winner has a candor to :, : it that, oddly enough, ties directly back to his relationship : :' with the sport. ôIÆve been loving sports my whole life. ItÆs ': ,: something I can write about, sing about, and be passionate about :, : in a real way. ItÆs genuinely me; it allowed me to be more : :' honest as an artist.ö ': ,: :, : ôCompetitive Streakö is a spacey, earnest groove that shouts out : :' JoeyÆs boyhood idols Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ': ,: without shattering the mood. Stylistically, basketball of the :, : past also proved to be a source of material. ôI used to watch : :' VHS tapes like Magic JohnsonÆs instructional video Put Some ': ,: Magic In Your Game or Michael Jordan: The Air Up There over and :, : over again,ö Joey says, ôand with æThe Night Before,Æ the : :' opening solo piano track, I was imagining something that ': ,: couldÆve been the soundtrack to one of these æ80s videos.ö :, : : :' He also drew from other sounds associated with that eraÆs NBA, ': ,: like Sade and smooth jazz curios that ômay have been lost :, : forever.ö ôRunning Away,ö the pulsating ballad, has elements of : :' nostalgia to it, maybe even shades of vintage Marvin Gaye, but ': ,: the chorus slaps in a way that feels utterly contemporary. :, : ôCompetitive Streakö blends eras with æ70s-style orchestrations, : :' modern soul flourishes, and guitars wholly in step with the pop ': ,: of today. :, : : :' The common thread here is musicality and song craftùthe two ': ,: pillars of JoeyÆs sound. ôThe most important thing is the song,ö :, : explains Joey. ôSongwriting wonÆt go out of style.ö ItÆs that : :' approach, one that thinks beyond style, that gives the EPÆs ': ,: title track its magic. Minimal and almost languid, ôGame Winnerö :, : has a confidence thatÆs hard to place in time, an ease that : :' meets a buzzer-beater just as well as it meets a Sunday ': ,: morning. :, : : :' Game Winner may be a snapshot, but itÆs hardly an anomaly or an ': ,: outlier. ItÆs Joey doing what heÆs always done. Basketball may :, : have been JoeyÆs first love, but the sport is also the perfect : :' metaphor for where heÆs ended up musically, always striving to ': ,: stay timely and timeless, to bring deep, foundational elements :, : in sync with innovation and imagination. : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 1 8 \/