8/10/2011 Nite Jewel plays Kraftwerk’s Computerworld at Hard Rock Cafe (Hollywood, CA)
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Monday, 18 July 2011 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p2MrgTVY9A
gonna keep propping up this thread because ^^^her new rec is done i think
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Saturday, 13 August 2011 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
thats good to hear, i've been wanting some new nite jewel in my life for a while.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 13 August 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
the ep & 12" were both v compelling in different ways, i thought. 'natural causes' or its remix popped up on shuffle a few days ago and really struck me. so nice texturally. i'm kinda curious to hear what the new one's like - i think because i assume it'll be hi-fi & lively, & so not bear the lo-fi, slo-mo & slinky characteristics that made me love the first one - but sorta feel like i'll just love it regardless. NJ are kinda special to me because i didn't listen to a lot of this kind of synth music beforehand, or only to some of the particular reference points it seems to swirl up, & so they maybe get extra credit for like concocting stuff they didn't actually invent. but yeah it thrills me that some is en route!
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Saturday, 13 August 2011 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I was at the Computerworld show. Was v. cool
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, 14 August 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
the clip above is terrific. it sorta sounded like live drums on another clip, but it was just her or ..?
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Sunday, 14 August 2011 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Just her. The drums/rhythm track seemed to originate from her laptop.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, 14 August 2011 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Any news?
What happened to Nite Funk/Dam Jewel???
― The One Good Taco Place In London (admrl), Thursday, 22 September 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
Also why isn't thread like 10 times as busy???
Jamming this all the live long dayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPK1NsAQYxU
― The One Good Taco Place In London (admrl), Thursday, 22 September 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
She should work with Sasu Ripatti next
― The One Good Taco Place In London (admrl), Thursday, 22 September 2011 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
also uh oh
She has collaborated with Julia Holter and Cole M.G.N. of Haunted Graffiti, curated two exhibitions at the Tiny Creatures gallery, and performed the work of Michael Pisaro. She was a philosophy student at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles.
― The One Good Taco Place In London (admrl), Thursday, 22 September 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
Did Max go to school w her? CAN THE SUBALTERN SPEAK?
― The One Good Taco Place In London (admrl), Thursday, 22 September 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
oh ADAM
― max, Thursday, 22 September 2011 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
MAX...hello
― The One Good Taco Place In London (admrl), Thursday, 22 September 2011 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
the NJ record is done & occasionally people on twitter are all omg you gotta hear this!, but there's no release or anything, yet.& yeah at jamming it goes through my head on repeat -- the dam funk remix particularly, and 'natural causes'. nj is so slinky.i think nite funk finished an ep, idk what's happening with it though.
her & j holter play with linda perhacs semi-regularly, now, too, i think. oh & there's this -- http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/12440-see-blind-through-ft-ramona-gonzalez-of-nite-jewel/
― 347.239.9791 stench hotline (schlump), Thursday, 22 September 2011 08:56 (twelve years ago) link
Every once in a while I listen to "Want You Back" just to remind myself it's one of my favorite songs of the last whatever many years. More plz.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 22 September 2011 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
oh word, so classic. i seldom buy 12"s but that's such a keeper.
― 347.239.9791 stench hotline (schlump), Thursday, 22 September 2011 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.laweekly.com/content/printVersion/1081737/
old news but i dig her writing style
still bump "am i real" on the regular these days
― fennel cartwright, Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
woooooooooooooooooooohttp://yourstrulysf.bandcamp.com/album/nite-jewel-shes-always-watching-you
― honest weights, square dealings (schlump), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 08:32 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm.
― She Got the Shakes, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
no what happens is you are all 'hmm' and then a month later you are all swinging around lampposts shouting IT-GOES-THRU-YOUR-HEAD (YES-IT-DOES) on the street
― honest weights, square dealings (schlump), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
What's not to like? That song's great.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 7 October 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
maybe its guitar backbone is less appealing than synths to some. i kinda love her in this hi-fi mode, now, though, & that as someone for whom the bedroom-synth thing was special, felt v current, etc.
just went back to her stonesthrow podcast, loving the patrice rushden & prophet picks
― honest weights, square dealings (schlump), Friday, 7 October 2011 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
i kinda love her in this hi-fi mode, now, though,
Was just gonna say the same. I love the drifty earlier stuff too, but I also like that she's not afraid to actually make great dance pop, not just sort of reprocess it. And I love the hard, bright edge on the guitar there. Sounds great.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 7 October 2011 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, agree. i think, i guess because after the first record there was her new stuff, & also finding out about her touchstones & hearing her spin & stuff, there is that danger that she would make the leap into just adoringly, meticulously recreating music she loved. but i think that this is all kinda sharp & quick & sincere enough to skirt that - elements like the bass-playing are definitely learnt from previous music but she is making great, new, collaborative music. i still play good evening all the time anyway, & things like 'natural causes' are back to that mindset.
anyhow i can't wait for the lp, if it wasn't mentioned above it's early 2012 on secretly canadian.
― honest weights, square dealings (schlump), Friday, 7 October 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
No, I LOVE 'It Goes Through Your Head'! This one's not happening for me (I'm willing to grant that could be a 'yet').
― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 7 October 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
let us reconvene. i ordered the single & i don't think will hear 'sister' til it lands on my doormat, so we can see how it has aged then. really wanna catch her playing sometime soon - think it might be solo shows? - but won't be in the right place at the right time.
― honest weights, square dealings (schlump), Friday, 7 October 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
but yeah it goes through your head is great, dam funk remix just as dope too
http://secretlycanadian.com/blog/2012/02/nite-jewel-pre-order-starts-today-instant-download-with-purchase/
i am not in the us, so am not, but getting i am real free would sway me into pre-ordering.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
alsohttp://nylonstylus.tumblr.com/post/17605980978/in-the-dark-off-of-la-based-nite-jewels this lp is gonna be really weird & is gonna slay
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
new song at the secretly canadian link rules
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
this album is pretty chill
― Number None, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
is it out?
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
it's "out". Autograph is really dreamy
― Number None, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
yeah. i'm still playing in the dark, all day long. i have a bunch to write about the record but might wait until more people have heard about it. because there are parts - the first song! - & there is the cover, which make those moves towards affiliation and kinda more overt affectation, i think, w/a lot of '80s music, all of which i think came up upthread when she was releasing it goes thru your head, &c, in hi-fi. i'd imagine the angle from which it does this is probably some of the subject of the big sprawling ilm destroyer thread, playing with a genre, playing with a form. even the sleeve, to me in some ways it's kinda a retro image to make, and in other ways i think it's just trying to be strong like those records, like a patrice rushen lp that puts the singer up front as a face on the lp, & making a record that will look the same way ten years from now. but it's interesting in a lot of ways. there are a couple of songs where the live drums make me really miss the nj slink, & some where the synth sounds don't coast or glaze or ride like good evening did in its way - just has become a preexisting form it loved & descended from instead of the weird, evolved byproduct that thing had produced. but it hits some really great highs too, & like memory man, say, becomes something that sucks me in more the more of a hold i get on it, which i think will happen with all of it. the words etc. i can't work out if she mentions heating up something in the microwave at some song towards the end of the record. she's so my fav, just so pleased to be around for these records.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah this is awesome. Lot of cool little left field touches - country twang on "Memory Man", Frippesque guitar on "Sister"...
― Number None, Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
sister is still one of my fav things she's done, it's perfect. there is another jam on the lp that is in the same territory but doesn't quite synthesise as well.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
and it's a bonus track, weirdly. Not that that means much these days
― Number None, Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
yeah. i bought an expensive seven inch from yours truly, w/it, & it's warped. i need to fuss around & try to get another.
in the dark, i played it all day long. singing a little below her range & then all up, high, little skips where the drums quicken, occasional edges of guitar strings, it's so great.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
favorites:
She's Always Watching YouIn the DarkMemory ManAutograph
― calstars, Saturday, 18 February 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
i have a fondness for mind, mind, mind, mind, mind, mind, mindandeyes
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Saturday, 18 February 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
She sounds like Yukimi Nagano on 'In the Dark'
― calstars, Sunday, 19 February 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
i kinda get a Beach House vibe from that one
― Number None, Sunday, 19 February 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
unearthly delights & clive slowly unfurled, revealed themselves, after more listening. they feel a nice evolution of the other part - the kinda less '80s/disco part - of the dna of good evening, which you hear a little in natural causes & elsewhere. i am really into this now, after being slightly thrown at first.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
clive just kills me. the words.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
if she took this record, put a load of hazy disco filters over everything then, like, recorded it over an old reel to reel to degrade the sound.. it would be 100%
― merked, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
nah
― Number None, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
this shit is mad smooth, didn't know she had it in her.
one has to think though, is CGN really the mastermind behind her new found pop shininess? you could kinda hear it on good evening, but it was skewered and just slightly off in a good way and now this...
― gaspard von trier, Thursday, 23 February 2012 06:01 (twelve years ago) link
Well it was produced by Cole MGN of The Samps and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti but i see no reason to think it wasn't an entirely collaborative effort. That's why i don't understand merked's comment, the pop smoothness of the thing is what makes it work. Couldn't get into Good Evening at all
― Number None, Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:11 (twelve years ago) link
that's what i liked about Nite Jewel in the first place, the bedroom sonics.. the songs on the new one are sculpted with a lot more purpose and confidence, and so are the vocal performances (this new assurance is probably what's allowed her to step out from behind the haze) - but i still liked that old sounde
― merked, Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link