NITE JEWEL thread

Yeah I think it's "no". Seems like this album is a logical progression from Nite-Funk so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqGO9VkoX-U

Looks like Nite Jewel also just put out an EP called "Obsession", all tracks below

http://www.gorillavsbear.net/stream-nite-jewels-obsession-12-ep/

Newest one "had to let me go" is the most funky of the singles so far:
https://open.spotify.com/track/520q1SyVf34r6sz44383bJ

Wish the Meters could play rhythm on it.

^ Nice track. "Obsession" EP has grown on me; it's uniformly chill which initially turned me off, but I found it compelling in the rain today. Sublime and insular, with the highlights "Real High" and "Real Low", gorgeous tracks with alien, aquatic synth bursts.

Haven't heard the EP but will ASAP

I also think this latest one is the one she's most invested and engaged in

Yeah this might be my favorite since One Second days

This album is so good

"Clive" from One Second goes perfectly into Death In Vegas "Girls". Tracks separated at birth

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNqUrPN0FE4YpGgfMydVZ23ohE-bvKOqI

Here's the Obsession EP

^ Awesome, calstars. "Real Low" is beautiful.

very much in character but i love this record

this record is so dreamy and beautiful. i've loved her since good evening and it's so great to see her produce a record as solid and confident as this without losing her character, like brad said

This album is so good. I really wasn't that excited when I put it on as Liquid Cool didn't do a lot for me. I think this could be her best album.

Starting to think kitchen is right that this is her best album. It's gorgeous

Pretty bummed I can't see her tomorrow night cuz I'm unemployed/broke. That's life

album's been growing on me, might have to give last year's ep another shot.

Moodles, you mean Nite-Funk? Yeah that's a good one and indicative of where she ended up on this new one. Turns out I'm seeing her tonight after all, so stoked - one of my favourite artists

I should give that one another shot too, but I was thinking of Liquid Cool, which I forgot was a full album.

Saw her last night and she was great. Duo with a keyboardist which allows Ramona more of an open air to sing and not play keys primarily. She's a wicked musician and a great singer, particular highlights were a blistering version of "Running Out of Time" and "What Did He Say?"

Also "Obsession" EP has become the dark counterpoint to "Real High". It contains many of the same tracks but is much more sullen and comedown than the LP. "Real Low" revisits the title track from her last LP in instrumental form and is lovely.

Kitchen person OTM this is her best album

Yeah, I would definitely take away the "think" part of my original post. This is her best work and one of the year's nicest surprises.

it's just 2 good 2 b true

yeah i love her first but this is the record she was born to make. course correct of One Second of Love. felt a bit weird hearing a track in starbucks

this album is definitely not front-loaded. it seems to peak in tempo in the middle and carry that for 3 tracks, culminating in a suite of some of her finest chill songs to date. The only weak spot is "I Don't Know"

I like that song. Pretty much like the whole album, in fact.

it was great live, loved the break

I went to see her last week because it was only £7 and I thought that seemed like a decent deal. I had forgotten just how many truly great songs she's made over the years and it was brilliant, her live voice was flawless.

the answer is the soty imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc-uwh12myM

of 2017, time lapse

Not to rank on her latest stuff, but I really miss Cole’s participation

Real High was one of my favorite albums from last year, I'm surprised it didn't get more love on here.

right there with ya Moodles

Real High was one of my favorite albums from last year, I'm surprised it didn't get more love on here.

― Moodles, Friday, February 9, 2018 5:28 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erjtza8eSaU

ultra lush, from the "Obsession" EP - which is a perfect transitional record from "Liquid Cool" to "Real High". EP starts with the title track from the newest and is book-ended by "Real Low", an instrumental version with more pronounced surface noise and an extended outro. Whole EP feels like a come-down and falls more in line with the nite-funk feel. PM me if you're interested

https://www.stereogum.com/1999281/nite-jewel-on-your-own-the-jokes-on-you/music/

new nite jewel

Yup yup! Will be listening later

New one has some of the old joyful bump of her earlier EPs

I like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA-kEdVp2to

: )

wow that's great

oh wow, love it

love her, love the new track, excited for the record

was just listening to real high yesterday and was wondering what she was up to. this is beautiful

I’m guessing from the notes to this single that she and cole have split ?

First para of the press release

In 2018, Gonzalez’s twelve year marriage dissolved. This left her alone and displaced, drifting from friend’s couch to friend’s couch. At the same time, she began her PhD in Musicology at UCLA. Gonzalez’s research on women’s musical lament practices formed a historical backbone for what became No Sun. Dating back to ancient Greece, the lament has utilized female voices as a vehicle for expressing communal and personal grief. In her research, Gonzalez considers this tradition within the context of contemporary pop divas, asking the question “What does it mean to be a professional mourner?” or to be a woman hired as an emotional vessel for a historically male composer? Gonzalez’s research considers the creative power of such singers, arguing that while often seen as visceral performers alone, these women are agents in their own right.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6GlrYBxZk67foyYiNvoU0a?si=TNA0iEg6Ti6xV7ZtkY_58g&dl_branch=1

New uptempo Collab sounds great , heart shaped / want you back era vibes

I prefer happy jewel to recent reflective sad jewel

i am deeply here for reflective sad nite jewel - super excited for her artistically at how she's taken her core sound and driven it somewhere you wouldn't have thought it could go? listening to that first single felt a bit like watching s3 of twin peaks - the familiar made somehow strange, the denial of expectations leading to something more deeply satisfying