Jane Weaver

Her new album, Flock, just might be her best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zop_79wxs6M

Number eleven in the midweek!

We have a thread!

hey jim -- i got the versus ep with jane weaver

i think the new thread is good

super psyched to hear this record

ok i just put it on and holy shit

everyone dissing "revolution of super visions" on the other thread is wack!!!!! parts of that song sound like funky cocteau twins, it's AMAZING

What the hell? That's the song that sold me.

I love Revolution of Super Visions now, but I maintain that it sounds like Phish funk. I've listened to the album a few times, but this week's been hectic and I haven't had time to properly sit with it.

Tim Burgess Twitter LIstening Party right this very second is about this new one.

Nice! I started a little before they did, so I'm a little out of sync. Im on Sunset Dreams right now, which I really like.

"solarised" is mindblowing, personally

I fortunately have no idea what Phish sounds like, but I do think this sounds like the best of her last two albums.

Actually it feels like a merger between her earliest work and her recent stuff, stripping away the overt Krautrock-isms. It's solid but I prefer her incredible run that starts with "The Silver Globe" and ends with the amazing Fenella LP.

Modern Reputation is immense.

this is a superb album

I've been playing this a lot. Probably her best album yet.

The boings in Sunset Dreams are amazing.

Loving the new Sunset Dreams ep.

yeh its superb

flock is fantastic. album of the year so far.

this is really quite good

highlights on first listen are the title track and "solarised"

it's cool bc it's heavily indebted to stereolab of course, but they never would have made "solarized"

Sunset Dreams EP is out on limited vinyl now: https://roughtrade95928.activehosted.com/index.php?action=social&c=1698&m=1774

She released a new single last week!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k_L1G0dkFc

great tune
new ep / lp on way already?

This article makes it sound like a one-off.

https://thequietus.com/articles/31296-jane-weaver-new-single-oblique-fantasy

from her Facebook this morning

Head over to my channel on You Tube (before it probably gets taken down) I’ve uploaded a video edit of music I did a while back for Finnish fashion label ‘Invana Helsinki’ the music was used for their campaign called Intianni kesa /Indian Summer and I eventually released it on Finders Keepers records (prob a few copies still hanging about the office) the music was recorded at Eve Studios and it’s one of my most favourite set of songs I’ve written. I did a number of small solo shows here and there with visuals comped by my good friend Andy Rushton taken one of my favourite Japanese animated Films ‘Belladonna of Sadness’ with art by the genius Kuni Fukai directed by Eiichi Yamamoto based on the French novel La Sorciere /Satanism and Witchcraft, I apologise in advance at the plot of said film and pls view with discretion as it’s pretty graphic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5_8_30173I

New Jane Weaver tune, Love In Constant Spectacle. She also announced a UK tour next spring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKzzR4J4RMU

Time to pre-order her new album, of which the preceding single is the title track.

https://janeweaver.lnk.to/LICS

Nice article yesterday in the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/21/nature-reminded-me-you-still-have-to-live-jane-weaver-on-grief-reinvention-and-80s-russian-aerobics-music

The Love In Constant Spectacle album came out on Friday. I'm just now getting around to it. It lives up to the high standards we have come to know from Jane Weaver. It's still psychedelic, but maybe more of a microdose trip this time around. More straight-ahead rock and pop and folk songs and less face-melting psylocybic weirdness, although it's always hovering in the air. I haven't relistened to older albums to confirm, but my first impression is that her vocals feel more foregrounded this time around. She is a treasure.

Title track is my favorite. There’s another one toward the end that could have come straight off The Noise Made By People

seeing her next month. haven't heard the new one yet but loved Flock

Really digging the new one. It is I guess more conventional, but really well written and produced. It reminds me a bit of glossy '80s art-pop, like peak Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel.

(maybe she should get a Fairlight)

This is fantastic. Clever songs and arrangements/production. I've ignored her last several albums, I think because I had her plain name mixed up with Joan Shelley. Big mistake. Now I'm not sure if I ever heard her before. Either way I'll be digging into what I've missed.

great gig tonight, bought the new album. I only started listening to her last year, have some catching up to do. I was sort of aware of her band Kill Laura in the 90s but there's like 25 years of stuff since then I didn't know about at all

glad you had a good time!

Love In Constant Spectacle is lovely - discovered it via the Quietus EOY list. Turns out I'd really liked "Argent" a decade back after coming across it on this mix (from ilxor Soundslike) but never followed up.