Song Premiere | Jangus Kangus, 'Double Lives'

Fortune Cookie is the first wide-scale, above-ground release from Jangus Kangus, LA’s foremost purveyor of imagist garage surf– raw, witty, tuneful, quasi-punk, defiantly indie – and the going concern of Jasmine Sankaran, musician, songwriter, and creative dictatress. With a fierce mind and a fearlessly vulnerable soul, Sankaran is so adept at casting herself as the villain in her own stories that she renders herself a heroine for our times.

With influences ranging from the surly urgency of The Clash to the immersive introspection of Courtney Barnett and Sharon Van Etten, Jangus Kangus is an encyclopedic songbook of popular music and a bonanza of broken hearts, raw nerves, and prickly, jangly, playfully eclectic guitar-pop.

The densely and lovingly packed Fortune Cookie is an eight-song, 30-minute album recorded at Moosecat Recording, where Sankaran and her bandmates captured the intimacy of their live performances while pushing her songwriting and execution to new, unique heights, depths, and eerie liminal spaces.

Today, Jangus Kangus shares the breezy, whimsical surf pop love song, “Double Lives.”