Emma-Jean Thackray – Weirdo (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Emma-Jean Thackray – Weirdo (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:51 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone UK

Emma-Jean Thackray, the visionary producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, releases her highly anticipated second album, “Weirdo” on April 25th via Gilles Peterson’s celebrated label, Brownswood Recordings / Parlophone Records. Known for defying musical boundaries, Thackray’s latest work is a deeply personal and utterly original exploration of selfhood, grief, and gratitude.
Drawing on an eclectic mix of influences—grunge, pop, soul, p-funk, and jazz— “Weirdo” is a triumphant celebration of survival and individuality. Written, performed, recorded, mixed, produced and arranged entirely by Thackray in her South London flat, the album stands as a testament to her extraordinary musicianship and fearless self-expression.Weirdo, the second album from trumpet player, composer, producer and DJ Emma-Jean Thackray, is a vivid evolution in her alchemy of jazz, pop and R&B styles. Like its predecessor, 2021’s Yellow, Weirdo flows forth with uniquely committed modern soul music, studded with transmogrified musical inspirations—spiritual jazz, funk (and P-Funk), ’70s-’90s dance-pop—that propel her righteous non-conformist message in a manner that compares favorably to the ecstatic soul of Thundercat.

The album’s title alone signals a personal expression—but this has been true of all of Thackray’s music since her 2016 debut EP, Walrus, a marvelously eccentric collection of instrumental tracks. She has sung increasingly more on each release—and it is in the lyrics of Weirdo’s songs, musing on neurodivergence and mental health and the cycle of processing grief and loss, that she makes personal statements above and beyond her previous work.

Musically, she perfects the moves she’s been making from the start—playful (and personal!) maximalist evocations of ’70s funk and soul. One clear departure is in the execution: Thackray plays all the music herself this time around. While this lends a sometimes-hermetic feeling to the production (and a shortfall of wild brass arrangements/performances—always a highlight of her releases), Weirdo sounds more comprehensively put together, buffing Yellow’s rough edges into a much sleeker vehicle. This also grants Thackray, deep within a machine of her own intimate device, the freedom to emote with the kind of soul that overwhelmingly communicates the personal at every turn.

Weirdo was recorded for Gilles Peterson’s Brownwood Recordings, which may have allowed for more budget to get everything just exactly perfect. (It sounds more expensive!) With smoothly integrated guest features from Reggie Watts and Kassa Overall and a glossy veneer transmuting Stevie Wonder’s productions for Syreeta and Minnie Ripperton—but cast more in the feral style of Annette Peacock’s X-Dreams—Weirdo speaks winningly and unmistakably to the needs of the emergent 21st century hive mind. – Rian Murphy

Tracklist:

1-1. Emma-Jean Thackray – Something Wrong With Your Mind (00:31)
1-2. Emma-Jean Thackray – Weirdo (04:39)
1-3. Emma-Jean Thackray – Stay (04:23)
1-4. Emma-Jean Thackray – Let Me Sleep (04:55)
1-5. Emma-Jean Thackray – Please Leave Me Alone (00:47)
1-6. Emma-Jean Thackray – Save Me (04:51)
1-7. Emma-Jean Thackray – Maybe Nowhere (05:14)
1-8. Emma-Jean Thackray – What is the Point (01:47)
1-9. Emma-Jean Thackray – Black Hole (feat. Reggie Watts) (04:12)
1-10. Emma-Jean Thackray – In Your Mind (00:50)
1-11. Emma-Jean Thackray – Tofu (02:13)
1-12. Emma-Jean Thackray – Fried Rice (01:06)
1-13. Emma-Jean Thackray – Where’d You Go (04:43)
1-14. Emma-Jean Thackray – Wanna Die (02:41)
1-15. Emma-Jean Thackray – Staring at the Wall (02:06)
1-16. Emma-Jean Thackray – I Don’t Recognise My Hands (01:08)
1-17. Emma-Jean Thackray – It’s Okay (feat. Kassa Overall) (03:31)
1-18. Emma-Jean Thackray – Remedy (03:35)
1-19. Emma-Jean Thackray – Thank You for the Day (04:29)

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