NITE JEWEL thread

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so dreamy. "want you back" is like a melted fantasy of madonna.

her weakest track...the ONLY weak track.

ha, no. the album does have some weakish tracks, but they don't bother me in the context of the album. but "want you back" is peak material. it's not afraid of itself.

Can't stop listening to Want You Back

that "artificial intelligence" song upthread is really nice. the synths are very nostalgic to me. they remind me of joe jackson or something. or like 80s yes.

i like the new song, bass is really huge and gets me

Want You Back is pretty awesome

yea - love want you back. not lo-fi at all compared to her other stuff

Really loving Want You Back.

The video: http://vimeo.com/6148270

this reminds me of pauline murray and the invisible girls...in places, it's a great record.

yea this record rules hard

also julee cruise

Love this. Heard from folks who saw her in London that it was a bit dull live, but I guess I can see it might. Great stuff though.

nite jewel + dam-funk = Nite-Funk
http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2009/12/am-i-gonna-make-it.html

dope!

Thks mizzell! lovin' it!

he's been dropping her name a bunch. makes so much sense now.

Me and my dad love these two. This new wave of lo-fi/no-fi goodness keeps getting better and better. It's all very "cable access performance".

stop smoking that shit for once

I had high hopes for this but my goodness, is this ever the wrong end of the 80s for me

I do like the hook on the chorus, though, when her voice comes in and it's all pretty

it just reminds me of the "nightclub" scene in so many cop operas on telly in the late 80s

But that shit is bomb, Shasta...oh so bomb.

good evening being reissued on stones throw?
http://www.stonesthrow.com/messageboard/index.php?showtopic=18121

also nite funk= whole album! (sorry if that's old news but i just assumed am i gonna make it was a 1 off)

I assumed Nite-Funk as a one-off as well, but this news of a whole album is the kind of shit that gets me excited.

There is going to be a Nite Jewel thread on the roof of a building in my town in a couple of weeks and I'm pretty stoked.
I just hope it gets some promotional help, or that the right few people tell their friends about it. It's the kind of event that could easily fly under the radar.

Nite Jewel show.

weird! i was just trying to think of nite jewel driving last night, keep meaning to investigate

"Want You Back" is my favorite. I've only got a crummy rip of Good Evening, it'd be nice to hear that on vinyl.

new ep comin'

https://digital.othermusic.com/img.php?s=175&i=46942

woo at tonight
makes me want to walk down the street shadowboxing like a dick

YOU F O sort of came and went without anyone noticing it seems.

new song "am i real?" w/ teen inc is really good:

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/off-the-record/nite-jewel-teen-inc-am-i-real-mp3/

speaking of teen inc, they rule. "fountains" is ridiculous:

http://teen-inc.net/

you f o was pretty hard to get hold of though. some of the new one is revised versions of what was on it.

what was that? new alb??

I figured it was maybe tour only. I got one from them on the road.

that's how i bought teh first one

tour only, uh huh. some of it was on a japanese 7" too i think. i liked another horizon the most. think stones throw are rereleasing her LP, too.

this teen inc stuff sounds like level 42. not a knock of course

teen inc is good when they have more than 2 songs we should give them a thread

oh cool someone tell them

nose goes

Forget You and I is gorgeous.

Weak For Me is perfect. The rest of the songs tend to get a little too moody and lost.

The newer stuff is much more consistent imo.

i hadn't been paying attention and missed this whole EP, but it's gorgeous.

i think i'm just waiting til the next LP to see if she's kinda jumped the shark in terms of ditching her woozy futuristic bedroom-synths thing, in favour of overtly celebratory eighties music. i like it all just as much, but it seems like a weird, deliberate step, that doesn't usually bode well for musicians.

the new one is pretty jiving anyhow

How many copies of Good Evening were made on vinyl? I wanna bid on one but don't wanna over pay.

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a bunch, i thought?, in case you're still thinking about it. it's getting re-pressed on stones throw sometime, anyway.

she's collaborating with julia holter at the minute, which sounds like a good combo

it does go for crazy money though, yeah

Blatant self-promo: I'm DJing with Nite Jewel after their show with James Blake tonight in San Francisco. Shock is playing, too (new band w/Dan Judd aka Sorcerer also from cosmic disco outfit Windsurf).

info: http://publicsf.com/events/nite-jewel-dj-set-4597

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

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

No Sun is out now, going to check it out today

I listened, sounds pretty mopey and introspective if that's your thing. A lot of songs seem to start with "I..."

Actually I like the vibe of this. I wasn’t sold on the tracks that came out pre-release, but overall I think it’s really nice. A “mature” album I guess? Contemplative and all that. But still has some of her late-night grooves.

Title track is downright jazzy.

loving this so far

eternal sea of darkness
eternal sea of darkness
eternal sea of darkness

hmm this is interesting, really quiet and restrained but then lets loose more on the last two tracks, those are great