Jakob Nowell Shares Debut Jakobs Castle Album 'Enter: The Castle'

Under the name of Jakobs Castle, artist Jakob Nowell has just released his debut album ahead of their Coachella Performance.

Jakobs Castle represents an unfiltered version of Nowell’s own sonic identity. Recorded in San Pedro, CA with producer and co-collaborator Jon Joseph (Børns, Caroline Rose), ENTER: THE CASTLE is Jakob’s modern expression of SoCal-born alternative rock. The album is an experiment to mix California’s past with the mysteries of underground internet culture – forging his own destiny in a way that’s relevant to today’s generation of listeners.

In a statement, Nowell said that “The goal of the project is infiltration – I want to infiltrate different scenes and make very weird music that is also palatable."

As the only child of the late Bradley Nowell of Sublime, one of the most influential bands of the 90s, Jakob Nowell’s life was anything but charmed. After losing his father as a baby and growing up in an unstable household, he felt mostly alone throughout his early life and faced struggles with addiction as a young adult. He credits discovering escapism in art, aided by the exploration of the internet’s bubbling subcultures, as tools to find his community. 

Nowell went on, saying “Jakobs Castle is my way of sending out my own weak single into the void. If even one other alien picks up on the references and feels a connection, my work is complete.”

In addition to his solo work with Jakobs Castle, Jakob Nowell will be playing a monumental performance at this year’s Coachella Music Festival as the frontman of Sublime, alongside original members Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh. Now seven years sober himself, Jakob Nowell is a board member of The Nowell Family Foundation; a nonprofit offering addiction recovery services to the music community with a residential recovery facility dubbed Bradley’s House.

ENTER: THE CASTLE Tracklisting

1.      Supervillain

2.      Crazy Friends

3.     Lights Out

4.      Sadness Is...

5.      My Machine

6.     Close Enough

7.     Motel Radio

8.      Catch Me

9.     Twenty-One Miles

10.   Ashlyn

11.   2 Hours Ago

12.   Time Traveler

13.   Emodub

14.   It's Not Me...It's You

Jakobs Castle Album Release Tour Dates

May 9 - Las Vegas, NV - The Space
May 10 - Phoenix, AZ - Last Exit Live
May 16 - Sacramento, CA - Goldfield Trading Post
May 17 - Templeton, CA - Club Car
May 19 - San Jose, CA - The Ritz
... and more to be announced soon!

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