Hologram Jams
{{Infobox album
| name = Hologram Jams
| type = Studio
| artist = Jaguar Love
| cover = Hologram Jams.jpg
| alt =
| released = March 2, 2010
| recorded = 2009
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| studio =
| length = 43:50
| label = Fat Possum Records
| producer = John Goodmanson
| prev_title = Take Me to the Sea
| prev_year = 2008
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Hologram Jams is the second full-length studio album by Jaguar Love. It is the first release not to feature former drummer J. Clark.
In May 2010, Jaguar Love and the website Tracks and Fields ran a remix competition for producers to remix the song "Polaroids and Red Wine," with the winner having their remix included on the single release.{{cite web|url=https://diymag.com/archive/jaguar-love-start-remix-competition|title=Jaguar Love Start Remix Competition|work=DIY|date=May 11, 2010|accessdate=May 8, 2020}}
Critical reception
{{Music ratings
| aggregate1 = Album of the Year
| aggregate1score = 42/100{{cite web|url=https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/1606-jaguar-love-hologram-jams.php|title=Jaguar Love – Hologram Jams|work=Album of the Year|accessdate=May 8, 2020}}
| MC = 55/100{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/hologram-jams/jaguar-love/critic-reviews|title=Critic Reviews for Hologram Jams|website=Metacritic|accessdate=May 8, 2020}}
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite web|last=Lymangrover|first=Jason|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1713335|pure_url=yes}}|title=Hologram Jams – Jaguar Love|website=AllMusic|accessdate=May 31, 2012}}
| rev2 = Alternative Press
| rev3 = Christgau's Consumer Guide
| rev3Score = {{Rating-Christgau|hm3}}{{cite web|url=http://robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=15062|title=Consumer Guide Album: Jaguar Love: Hologram Jams|work=Robert Christgau|accessdate=May 31, 2012}}
|rev4=Drowned in Sound
|rev4Score= 6/10{{cite web|last=Farah|first=Amanda|date=April 23, 2010|url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/15323/reviews/4139787|title=Album Review: Jaguar Love – Hologram Jams|website=Drowned in Sound|accessdate=May 31, 2012|archive-date=April 30, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100430044602/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/15323/reviews/4139787|url-status=dead}}
|rev5=Loud and Quiet
|rev5Score=2/10{{cite web|last=Younis|first=Reef|date=June 2010|url=http://www.loudandquiet.com/2010/06/jaguar-love-hologram-jams|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100626155942/http://www.loudandquiet.com/2010/06/jaguar-love-hologram-jams/|archivedate=June 26, 2010|title=Jaguar Love – Hologram Jams|work=Loud and Quiet|accessdate=May 31, 2012}}
|rev6=NME
|rev6Score= {{rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web|last=Murray|first=Kelly|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/11254|date=April 26, 2010|title=Album Review: Jaguar Love – ‘Hologram Jams’ (Fat Possum)|work=NME|accessdate=May 31, 2012}}
|rev7=Pitchfork
|rev7Score= 2/10{{cite web|last=Harvey|first=Eric|date=March 5, 2010|url=https://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13959-hologram-jams|title=Jaguar Love: Hologram Jams|work=Pitchfork|accessdate=May 8, 2020}}
|rev8=PopMatters
|rev8Score={{rating|6|10}}{{cite web|last=Lyndal Martin |first=Erin|date=April 9, 2010|url=https://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/123080-jaguar-love-hologram-jams|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412145854/https://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/123080-jaguar-love-hologram-jams|archivedate=April 12, 2010|title=Jaguar Love: Hologram Jams|work=PopMatters|accessdate=May 8, 2020}}
|rev9=The Skinny
|rev9Score={{rating|1|5}}{{cite web|last=Drever |first=Ryan|date=April 1, 2010|url=http://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/reviews/albums/98953-jaguar_love_hologram_jams|title=Jaguar Love – Hologram Jams|work=The Skinny|accessdate=May 8, 2020}}
|rev10=Tiny Mix Tapes
|rev10Score= {{rating|1.5|5}}{{cite web|last=Hill|first=Jay|url=https://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/Jaguar-Love-Hologram-Jams|title=Music Review: Jaguar Love – Hologram Jams|website=Tiny Mix Tapes|accessdate=May 31, 2012}}
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Hologram Jams was poorly received by professional journalists, with most of the criticisms pointed at the group's stylistic changes towards what some journalists found to be a cheap electronic sound,{{cite web|last=Long|first=Jen|date=April 15, 2010|url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/jaguar-love-hologram-jams-27455|title=Jaguar Love – Hologram Jams|work=The Line of Best Fit|accessdate=May 10, 2020}} an overly-sugary pop flavor, and a "target marketed" attempt to try to appeal to teenagers with its lyrics. The Line of Best Fit went as so far to compare Hologram Jams to 3OH!3, while reviewers from Pitchfork, Spectrum Culture, and The Skinny reported feeling exhausted from the album's overwhelming amount of noise and upbeat energy.{{cite web|last=Middleman|first=Chris|date=March 25, 2010|url=https://spectrumculture.com/2010/03/25/jaguar-love-hologram-jams/|title=Jaguar Love: Hologram Jams|work=Spectrum Culture|accessdate=May 9, 2020}}
Whitney's vocal performance on Hologram Jams garnered a mixed response. Loud and Quiet criticized it for ranging "between white boy skit and whiny primetime talent show hopeful" instead of sounding like a "banshee call for something belligerent" in his past works. AllMusic suggested the synthesizers exaggerated Whitney's "dazzlingly shrill singing style and flare for dramatics" that turned off some reviewers of prior Jaguar Love releases. On the other hand, Drowned in Sound called the singing a "saving grace" in an album with machine-programmed instrumentals where "songs are stuck on a loop."
Hologram Jams{{'}}s more decent reviews appreciated it as a fun dance record,{{cite web|last=Kennedy|first=Adam|year=2010|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/mdm5/|title=Jaguar Love Hologram Jams Review|work=BBC Music|accessdate=May 31, 2012}} NME{{'}}s Kelly Murray particularly enjoying it as a satirical one. The change towards a more electronic sound was also positively commented on by a few reviewers, including Erin Lyndal Martin of PopMatters, who claimed it still had "the sheer energy the music puts forth and the exuberant elastics of Johnny Whitney’s vocals" while keeping it "fresh" with the use of synthesizers.
Track listing
- I Started A Fire - 3:56
- Polaroids And Red Wine - 3:39
- Cherry Soda - 3:17
- Don't Die Alone - 3:34
- Up All Night - 4:11
- Jaguar Warriors - 3:04
- Everything Is Awesome - 3:57
- Evaline - 4:01
- Sad Parade - 3:31
- A Prostitute, An Angel - 3:38
- Freak Out - 3:55
- Piece of My Heart (Erma Franklin cover) - 3:14
References
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