her weakest track...the ONLY weak track.
― Spinspin Sugah, Sunday, 16 August 2009 05:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 16 August 2009 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't stop listening to Want You Back
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 27 August 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Thought you were regal/Now who needs "Boston Legal"? (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 27 August 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i like the new song, bass is really huge and gets me
― d.o.a. - y? (k3vin k.), Friday, 28 August 2009 04:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Want You Back is pretty awesome
― dmr, Friday, 28 August 2009 06:13 (fourteen years ago) link
yea - love want you back. not lo-fi at all compared to her other stuff
― just sayin, Friday, 28 August 2009 07:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Really loving Want You Back.
The video: http://vimeo.com/6148270
― plazzTT, Friday, 28 August 2009 10:17 (fourteen years ago) link
this reminds me of pauline murray and the invisible girls...in places, it's a great record.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
yea this record rules hard
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
also julee cruise
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― craigboney (Mister Craig), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
nite jewel + dam-funk = Nite-Funkhttp://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2009/12/am-i-gonna-make-it.html
― mizzell, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
dope!
― just sayin, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Thks mizzell! lovin' it!
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
he's been dropping her name a bunch. makes so much sense now.
― jaxon, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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".
― Spinspin Sugah, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link
stop smoking that shit for once
― quiet and secretively we will always be together (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 10 December 2009 07:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Karen Tregaskin, Thursday, 10 December 2009 10:29 (fourteen years ago) link
But that shit is bomb, Shasta...oh so bomb.
― Spinspin Sugah, Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― no fear, Sunday, 25 April 2010 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Sunday, 25 April 2010 13:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Nite Jewel show.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
weird! i was just trying to think of nite jewel driving last night, keep meaning to investigate
― the Rob Based god (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
"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.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
new ep comin'
https://digital.othermusic.com/img.php?s=175&i=46942
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
woo at tonightmakes me want to walk down the street shadowboxing like a dick
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Thursday, 29 July 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
YOU F O sort of came and went without anyone noticing it seems.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 29 July 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
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/
― akaky akakievich, Thursday, 29 July 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
you f o was pretty hard to get hold of though. some of the new one is revised versions of what was on it.
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
what was that? new alb??
― titchyschneiderhouserules (s1ocki), Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I figured it was maybe tour only. I got one from them on the road.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
that's how i bought teh first one
― titchyschneiderhouserules (s1ocki), Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Thursday, 29 July 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
this teen inc stuff sounds like level 42. not a knock of course
― uptown churl, Friday, 30 July 2010 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
teen inc is good when they have more than 2 songs we should give them a thread
― max, Friday, 30 July 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
oh cool someone tell them
― titchyschneiderhouserules (s1ocki), Friday, 30 July 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
nose goes
― max, Friday, 30 July 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Forget You and I is gorgeous.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Weak For Me is perfect. The rest of the songs tend to get a little too moody and lost.
― coolsundays, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
The newer stuff is much more consistent imo.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i hadn't been paying attention and missed this whole EP, but it's gorgeous.
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 04:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― schlump, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
How many copies of Good Evening were made on vinyl? I wanna bid on one but don't wanna over pay.
― sarahsmiles, Friday, 21 January 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
^^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
― your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Friday, 8 April 2011 12:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Monday, 23 May 2011 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
I’m guessing from the notes to this single that she and cole have split ?
― calstars, Friday, 25 June 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
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.
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 25 June 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/track/6GlrYBxZk67foyYiNvoU0a?si=TNA0iEg6Ti6xV7ZtkY_58g&dl_branch=1New uptempo Collab sounds great , heart shaped / want you back era vibes
― calstars, Thursday, 5 August 2021 15:30 (two years ago) link
I prefer happy jewel to recent reflective sad jewel
― calstars, Thursday, 5 August 2021 15:31 (two years ago) link
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
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 6 August 2021 00:24 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLPvUTJIRBI
― ncxkd, Saturday, 7 August 2021 07:09 (two years ago) link
No Sun is out now, going to check it out today
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 27 August 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
I listened, sounds pretty mopey and introspective if that's your thing. A lot of songs seem to start with "I..."
― calstars, Friday, 27 August 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 27 August 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
Title track is downright jazzy.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 27 August 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
loving this so far
― aegis philbin (crüt), Saturday, 28 August 2021 03:26 (two years ago) link
eternal sea of darknesseternal sea of darknesseternal sea of darkness
― aegis philbin (crüt), Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:09 (two years ago) link
hmm this is interesting, really quiet and restrained but then lets loose more on the last two tracks, those are great
― ufo, Saturday, 28 August 2021 05:48 (two years ago) link