
In Demand: Jim-E Stack On Working With Bon Iver, Dominic Fike and More
When house-pop producer Jim-E Stack released his first album in 2014, he was in his early twenties and had just relocated from New Orleans to Brooklyn — and for the first time felt alone. Stack (born James Stack) grew up in San Francisco playing with his best friends in a jazz band, and while attending college in New Orleans was similarly surrounded by aspiring musicians. “I had a little musical community,” he says. “But when I moved to New York, I didn’t at all. There was no collaboration in any sense. I was really isolated, creatively and socially. It wasn’t good for me.” He decided to move back west, relocating to Los Angeles where he has once again found a network of like-minded friends turned collaborators, including everyone from Bon…