Mörkret har lagt sig runt den anrika dansbanan i Ängsholns Folkpark strax utanför Gagnef där den trevligaste form av festival, Skankaloss, äger rum för tionde året i rad. Duon jj är ett av festivalens dragplåster, om man nu får använda detta ord i sammanhanget. Trots minimal marknadsföring och ett visst hemlighetsmakeri inför helgen säljer man slut och gör ett drygt tusental besökare nöjda år efter år. Missa inte bandets lilla covermedley mot slutet av konserten där man väver in Lil Wayne/The Game låten "My Life" med Broder Daniels "Shoreline".

"You don't need me to tell you for the 128th time (320th if you're at CD quality) how digital file distribution has spread sounds and ideas across the globe during the current decade, and jj have earned a place among the current wave of pop globalization, sharing both the island sounds and sticky-fingered irreverence of their labelmates the Tough Alliance, Air France, and the Honeydrips. Sure, jj still carry traces of iconic twee label Sarah Records, but they celebrate a broader definition of "pop". Sometimes, as on "Lollipop"-biting slo-mo raver "Ecstasy", jj do this by borrowing from global hip-hop culture. But they also participate. Never by straight-up rapping, but by expanding the reach of ambient music-- defined expansively, as Brian Eno once did, as music that "suggests, a place, a landscape, a soundworld which you inhabit"-- to include a whole new kind of swagger. "Of course there is people out to get me," a female vocalist sings on "My Hopes and Dreams" as hand percussion evokes the Avalanches' beach blowouts, hypnotic guitar recalls German Kosmiche Muzik, and gusts of winds whistle over high-noon Ennio Morricone strings." Pitchfork

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