first i really encountered anything that sounded like this was oddly enough while working through the discography of the japanese rock band the pillows. they started off as a jangle pop band indebted to the smiths and etc., then gradually absorbed jazz influences i guess? and they put out two really incredible jazz rock records in the mid-'90s, kool spice and living field.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_eFZHYk3Pw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PxraLHOZrc
sort of an oblique way to get into this music, but i was revisiting the cardigans' life the other day and it seemed to also fit into this mold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vgpEKeqXsc
anyway, i'm sure there's a lot more of this, i'm just not sure where to look? is this what early everything but the girl is like? or is this stuff in its own world which doesn't cross over with sophistopop
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsNNgn4BAwU
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
not really but i've been looking for a place to slot that video
lol
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
some Dislocation Dance maybe sounds a bit like this? Weekend?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJXPNyKNlC8
― soref, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
Does Burndt Jamb kind of count?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo1zQAy85jg
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
always wondered why i liked burndt jamb so much
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
I think some Microdisney sounds like this, before they went full on Prefab Sprout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Urt5_Sny9Y
― soref, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
It maybe isn't full-on jangly or twee, but Sandro Perri's Impossible Spaces kinda fits the mold.
― klonman, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
Don't the Sea and Cake's early records kind of fit this description perfectly?
― austinato (Austin), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I was going to say.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 21:55 (nine years ago) link
or sam prekop solo
― just sayin, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link
that first album <3 for ever
Speaking of the Cardigans, lots of mid-to-late 90s Minty Fresh releases might qualify.
Such as:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKtTLRF8NLA
― jaymc, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link
(Well, maybe not lots. But maybe a place to start.)
― jaymc, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link
Came for the Sea & Cake / Prekop / Archer Prewitt suggestions, will show myself out with a Karate suggestion...
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 23:50 (nine years ago) link
this is not very jangly but is kind of twee so maybe fits?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYaVJebihIY
Hatfield & the North, "Let's Eat (Real Soon)"
― soref, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 00:05 (nine years ago) link
no idea if this fits but it's what came to mind. cool album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbhmsEW0pXc
― flopson, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 00:12 (nine years ago) link