The Jack Moves
The Jack Moves, traveling soul troubadours that they are, packed up their songs and took them down to Adan Jodorowsky’s studio in Mexico City. The Newark New Jersey duo, in their relentless travels through the new millennium, have always had one eye in the rear-view mirror. At times slow and low with the raw emotion of 70s soul, other times finessing curves with the polish of 80s R&B hooks, and then perhaps pulling up to the poppingest joint with the swagger of 90s street bounce—but once they got going, their journey was always fearlessly futuristic free soul. Across three albums—the self-titled, The Jack Moves (2015), Free Money (2018), and Cruiserweight (2022)—Zee Desmondes and Teddy Powell created a musical itinerary you can almost taste, where skate culture and classic slow jams not only collide but make fresh & sweet potions for the soul. Now, with Love Machine, they’ve taken those ingredients further into that blender, blurring the line between what was and what’s next and making funky soul marmalade and sweet electric jelly.
This latest spiritual journey took them to Mexico, where they teamed up with sonic shaman Adan Jodorowsky (yes...that surrealistic lineage) —who is also an Everloving Records labelmate who first connected with the band when covering their song “You’re Gonna Miss Me” for the label’s 20th anniversary cultural exchange compilation. The Mexico City sessions at his studio were drenched in humid cinematics, setting the stage for an album that doesn’t just nod to the past but reconstructs it from the ground up. Mixed in France by Jack Lahana before making its way back to the U.S. for a summer release, Love Machine takes everything The Jack Moves do best—silky falsettos, deep grooves, undeniable hooks—and throws a few unexpected punches.
Leading the charge is the absolutely mesmerizing Biggest Creep in America, which drops April 25. We’ve all felt it—had love in the palm of our hands and let it slip away. One wrong move, one misstep, and suddenly you’re on the outside looking in. The Jack Moves capture that moment of regret with a slow-burning groove that aches in all the right places.
From Newark to Mexico, from France to the airwaves, The Jack Moves are on the move. The deck has been shuffled, the bets are placed. You can play it safe or go all in—but either way, the house always wins.