
Jazz Cartier is a winner. I don’t know how better to put it, because all the 18-year-old Toronto native seems to be able to do is succeed. In March of 2010, he debuted the video for “Slow It Down/Her Daddy Don’t Like Me,” accumulating almost 80,000 views in the year and a half since; Cartier followed that up with the Tayyib Ali collaboration “Bounce”–which, to be honest, should’ve been a huge-ass club hit–and his animalistic 2011 drop “Jaguar Jazzy.”
Now, the prep school kid (shouts to AOF) has a full-length project to show off: Losing Elizabeth, a loosely conceptual album focusing on his life at boarding school, his summers spent in Africa, and his first love, the titular Elizabeth. Sure, the singles (“Gold & Girls,” “Far Away,” “Olivier Garden,”) are still excellent, but it’s the more emotionally-heavy tracks that really stand out. The nearly eight-minute “Ex Factor,” with a gorgeous Lauryn Hill vocal, is a highlight, as is a Lykke Li-sampling stunner from 2010 entitled “Strangers, Until We Bleed.”
Download this. Please. If you’ve ever been in love (which should be most of you), ever been torn between two lives (hopefully just a small fraction of our readership), or ever had even the slightest thing for someone (if you haven’t, get the fuck out of your basement), iTunes will lose track of your LE play counts.
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