UK Hip Hop legend Jehst drops his highly anticipated new twelve-track album MORK CALLING ORSON, via YNR Productions

Referencing the cult alien sitcom from the turn of the 80s, ‘Mork Calling Orson’ is Jehst’s sixth album reaching a typically supreme standard of syllables and similes bearing a red-eyed hue.

Featuring the tracks ‘Daily Planet’, ‘One Horse Town’, ‘Wild Herb’ and ‘Autumn Nights’, and with Confucius MC, Eva Lazarus, Lee Scott, CW Jones, and SINDYSMAN guesting, Jehst continues to unlock his superpower of making the melancholic incisively slice through all before him.

His partiality to provocative references to the fore, and sloganeering that,

“You hear the voice of God when I rock the mic”, “Jehst for president” and “I’m Nas in that ‘Illmatic’ phase”,

without either irony or pretense, ‘Mork Calling Orson’ begins as drowsy, clouded, and dry-mouthed, occasionally letting light peer through the curtains, otherwise at peace with self-imposed exile

(“Ain’t no sunshine, regardless of climate change”).

Nostalgic soundbites are interspersed with namechecks of Audio Two, Vanilla Ice, Daley Thompson, Mayor Quimby and Aloe Blacc, and Keor Meteor and Beat Butcha provide subtleties of assistance on production.

The classically 90s, NYC beats of ‘Footsteps’, and ‘Lonely World’ mutedly following its lead, have Jehst rising up, alert to self-examination and the outside world. Returning to familiar sticky green comforts on the G-funked ‘Wild Herb’, is a trigger for the album to find strength and leave its shell, with the subsequent ‘Doctor’ and soft rock lineage of ‘Daily Planet’ and ‘Flight to L.A.’ allowing for streams of consciousness and the sort of word association and reactions to the reality that have been Jehst’s hallmark for decades.

The lullaby of ‘One Horse Town’ is the album’s centerpiece, gently ascending and fighting any previous pessimism, before Jehst retreats behind the ‘Front Door’ and on the graceful ‘Skyline’; a fractured soul conflicting his previous status of “mentally irate, physically primate”, stays eloquently, edgily tack-sharp to the last.

Jehst – Mork Calling Orson via iTunes/Spotify

JEHST – FEBRUARY 2023 UK TOUR

Grab a ticket for Jehst’s February 2023 UK tour and become part of those,

“Rowdy crowds ready and waiting for the unveiling of each masterpiece”.

THU 09th @ Jazz Cafe London
FRI 10th @ Headrow House Leeds
SAT 11th @ The Ferret Preston
FRI 17th @ Lost Horizon Bristol
SAT 18th @ Sub Rooms Stroud
SUN 19th @ Blues Kitchen Manchester

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE

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