love this shit.
"universal mind" is the jam.
― max, Saturday, 28 February 2009 01:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
I don't know anything about this but both the band/act name & the title you cite are fuckin rad.
― Whiney G. Weingarten (J0hn D.), Saturday, 28 February 2009 01:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
artificial intelligence is my fave.
― mizzell, Saturday, 28 February 2009 01:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
I love "Artificial Intelligence." Was surprised to find out she had only just signed to IDIB after putting out a few singles elsewhere; that name is just so on-the-nose.
― Telephone thing, Saturday, 28 February 2009 02:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah i just assumed it was a johnny jewel project.
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 28 February 2009 02:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
just listened to it for the first time. it's pretty great. i wish it wasn't AS lo-fi. i dig the concept of it, but i think it could use to get rid of some tape his and eq it better. it reminds me of a lost minimal synth record.
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Saturday, 28 February 2009 03:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
max, you didn't mention that she went to your lolcollege
check out Fan Death if you haven't. not lo-fi at all, but mining the same IDIB terrain
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Saturday, 28 February 2009 03:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
i've only got the 12", it's aight. is it the girl from chromatics on vocals as well? if anything it proved that jj knows how to write a really infectious bassline
― rio (r1o natsume), Saturday, 28 February 2009 13:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
it makes me think more of early 80s electro rnb than it does minimal synth
i like this a lot more than fan death, the stylized lo-fi production def does it for me. it seems like she's aiming for something more like bedroom pop than anyone else on idib, almost like that tickley feather record from last year but slightly danceable
― all-seeing eye of horus (psychgawsple), Saturday, 28 February 2009 20:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah this shit is mellow as fuck, thank you max, really enjoying
― Whiney G. Weingarten (J0hn D.), Saturday, 28 February 2009 20:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
johnny jewel doesn't have anything to do w/this, does he?
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Saturday, 28 February 2009 22:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
not with anything she/they've recorded so far, i don't think. but nite jewel is part of an idib party next week, which would be tempting if i didn't have plans that night. (although tbh i'm kind of skeptical of how that stuff plays live. it seems more tailored to headsets, car stereos and late-night living room soundsystems.)
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 28 February 2009 22:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
I love Artificial Intelligence to death.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 1 March 2009 03:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
great set on fmu a week or two back, worth checking out. even spacier than on record.
― schlump, Sunday, 1 March 2009 04:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
can't wait til 'want you back' is in my hands (april i think)
― deveraux billings (schlump), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 04:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
loved these dudes live last week.
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 04:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
album is so hot.
― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Thursday, 16 April 2009 09:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
i need to check this out
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 16 April 2009 09:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
It's only available on vinyl, right? I love all the IDIB stuff (a lot) but this one hasn't appeared for sale on iTunes or eMusic or anything. I have heard one song on a sampler and it was really, really great. Can't get enough haunting icy horror movie soundtrack-y stuff.
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Thursday, 16 April 2009 09:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
i think i like "universal mind" much better than everything else on here, and sonically it's quite an outlier. the rest is there but doesnt do much for me
― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Thursday, 16 April 2009 15:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
its available on CD too! or it was--may be sold out. mike had it at the italians store for a while. the album is actually out on human ear (vinyl) and gloriette (cd), not italians... she just has done a couple 12" w/ them, plus opened for glass candy a couple times.
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 16 April 2009 15:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
A+ album
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 16 April 2009 15:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
still waiting on "want you back" 12" on idib. i will flatly not hear most of this summer's best songs but it is the kind of thing i want to christen THIS SUMMER'S SUMMEREST JAM.
lp is a real grower. the lover cover used to fade by but its slink has swayed me.
― corps of discovery (schlump), Thursday, 16 April 2009 15:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
the album is actually out on human ear (vinyl) and gloriette (cd), not italians...
aha... looks like it's the reverse: Human Ear has the CD, but it's still listed as a "pre-order" (even though the release date is listed as December 25th, 2008). It's $12. The vinyl on Gloriette is sold out. Another Google link showed there was some other CD-R thing (different from the album) sold exclusively through the Other Music site last year, but that's all gone.
Is it not really worth it, money-wise, for small labels like IDIB/Gloriette/Human Ear to sell stuff digitally? Or why else wouldn't they?
Mike was putting the IDIB stuff on iTunes for a while, but the newest ones (Bottin, Nite Jewel, Twisted Wires) haven't shown up on there.
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Thursday, 16 April 2009 16:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
whoops yeah, youre right
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 16 April 2009 16:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
the CD-R that was other music only is mostly stuff that ended up on good evening i think
in one form or another
yeah I think "Good Evening" = "My CD" (the cdr thing) plus some bonus tracks off her 12"s
― dmr, Thursday, 16 April 2009 16:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF THIS FUCKING RECORD! So goddamn good!
― ken taylrr, Friday, 31 July 2009 17:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^Exactly....252 listens in a week. "What Did He Say" is pretty damn special.
― Spinspin Sugah, Friday, 31 July 2009 20:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
still haven't heard the album but the first 12" has been played all year since i got in like november i think. really good. i see it as a dark and moody take on all those great sassy female vocalled west end tracks like "another man"
is she good live? playing over here in august
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Friday, 31 July 2009 21:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
i remember askin someone - maybe slocki? - and he gave her the thumbs up
― just sayin, Friday, 31 July 2009 23:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
i never usually buy $10 12" singles but the new one is so great
― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Sunday, 16 August 2009 02:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
<3
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 16 August 2009 04:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
so dreamy. "want you back" is like a melted fantasy of madonna.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 16 August 2009 04:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
her weakest track...the ONLY weak track.
― Spinspin Sugah, Sunday, 16 August 2009 05:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
Can't stop listening to Want You Back
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 27 August 2009 22:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
i like the new song, bass is really huge and gets me
― d.o.a. - y? (k3vin k.), Friday, 28 August 2009 04:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
Want You Back is pretty awesome
― dmr, Friday, 28 August 2009 06:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
yea - love want you back. not lo-fi at all compared to her other stuff
― just sayin, Friday, 28 August 2009 07:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
Really loving Want You Back.
The video: http://vimeo.com/6148270
― plazzTT, Friday, 28 August 2009 10:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
yea this record rules hard
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 20:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
also julee cruise
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 20:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
nite jewel + dam-funk = Nite-Funkhttp://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2009/12/am-i-gonna-make-it.html
― mizzell, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 22:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
this album is pretty chill
― Number None, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
is it out?
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's "out". Autograph is really dreamy
― Number None, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah. i'm still playing in the dark, all day long. i have a bunch to write about the record but might wait until more people have heard about it. because there are parts - the first song! - & there is the cover, which make those moves towards affiliation and kinda more overt affectation, i think, w/a lot of '80s music, all of which i think came up upthread when she was releasing it goes thru your head, &c, in hi-fi. i'd imagine the angle from which it does this is probably some of the subject of the big sprawling ilm destroyer thread, playing with a genre, playing with a form. even the sleeve, to me in some ways it's kinda a retro image to make, and in other ways i think it's just trying to be strong like those records, like a patrice rushen lp that puts the singer up front as a face on the lp, & making a record that will look the same way ten years from now. but it's interesting in a lot of ways. there are a couple of songs where the live drums make me really miss the nj slink, & some where the synth sounds don't coast or glaze or ride like good evening did in its way - just has become a preexisting form it loved & descended from instead of the weird, evolved byproduct that thing had produced. but it hits some really great highs too, & like memory man, say, becomes something that sucks me in more the more of a hold i get on it, which i think will happen with all of it. the words etc. i can't work out if she mentions heating up something in the microwave at some song towards the end of the record. she's so my fav, just so pleased to be around for these records.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah this is awesome. Lot of cool little left field touches - country twang on "Memory Man", Frippesque guitar on "Sister"...
― Number None, Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
sister is still one of my fav things she's done, it's perfect. there is another jam on the lp that is in the same territory but doesn't quite synthesise as well.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
and it's a bonus track, weirdly. Not that that means much these days
― Number None, Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah. i bought an expensive seven inch from yours truly, w/it, & it's warped. i need to fuss around & try to get another.
in the dark, i played it all day long. singing a little below her range & then all up, high, little skips where the drums quicken, occasional edges of guitar strings, it's so great.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
favorites:
She's Always Watching YouIn the DarkMemory ManAutograph
― calstars, Saturday, 18 February 2012 23:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
i have a fondness for mind, mind, mind, mind, mind, mind, mindandeyes
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Saturday, 18 February 2012 23:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
She sounds like Yukimi Nagano on 'In the Dark'
― calstars, Sunday, 19 February 2012 19:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
i kinda get a Beach House vibe from that one
― Number None, Sunday, 19 February 2012 20:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
unearthly delights & clive slowly unfurled, revealed themselves, after more listening. they feel a nice evolution of the other part - the kinda less '80s/disco part - of the dna of good evening, which you hear a little in natural causes & elsewhere. i am really into this now, after being slightly thrown at first.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
clive just kills me. the words.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 14:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
if she took this record, put a load of hazy disco filters over everything then, like, recorded it over an old reel to reel to degrade the sound.. it would be 100%
― merked, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
nah
― Number None, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 22:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
this shit is mad smooth, didn't know she had it in her.
one has to think though, is CGN really the mastermind behind her new found pop shininess? you could kinda hear it on good evening, but it was skewered and just slightly off in a good way and now this...
― gaspard von trier, Thursday, 23 February 2012 06:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well it was produced by Cole MGN of The Samps and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti but i see no reason to think it wasn't an entirely collaborative effort. That's why i don't understand merked's comment, the pop smoothness of the thing is what makes it work. Couldn't get into Good Evening at all
― Number None, Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's what i liked about Nite Jewel in the first place, the bedroom sonics.. the songs on the new one are sculpted with a lot more purpose and confidence, and so are the vocal performances (this new assurance is probably what's allowed her to step out from behind the haze) - but i still liked that old sounde
― merked, Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Looking forward to hearing this
― used to have a crush on Dawn from En Vogue (admrl), Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Love this.
Sounds like a Dirty Projectors record at times ('She's Always Watching You' esp.)
― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
shit is mad smooth
― Luomas (admrl), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
hoping that she plays with a band on the tour
― calstars, Saturday, 10 March 2012 02:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
really like mind & eyes
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 10 March 2012 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://pitchfork.com/tv/yours-truly/1894-nite-jewel/3097-shes-always-watching-you/
Completely in love with this girl
― calstars, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
i heard this on a mix NJ made for bomb, it's so funny how it's the same kinda palette/genepool as her first rec
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 11:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
She played Kraftwerk's Computer Love last night in LA...wish I was there.
― calstars, Saturday, 2 June 2012 19:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was there - it was pretty great. I'm not a big Nite Jewel fan but they did a good job of it after a slightly shaky start.
Also it was the headlining portion of a "Krautrock Classics" night. First half of the night was a bunch of bands doing one-off covers. DNTEL did Faust's "Jennifer," Ariel Pink and White Magic teamed up for a song (I didn't recognize who the originator was), ESP did Can, Sun Araw did Krokodil, and another group did a Popol Vuh song. Whole night was pretty awesome.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Saturday, 2 June 2012 19:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
feel like everyone would be into this: nice Russian thing, prod. by NJ:
http://www.lookatme.ru/my/my/10-new-names/168733-10-molodyh-muzykantov-ifwe-i-nite-jewel
― blossom smulch (schlump), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 12:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
@gr8080
I keep coming back to this album, "Autograph" and "In The Dark" are amazing songs but the whole thing is so smooth and languid, yet with all these idiosyncratic sonic touches that keep it interesting, and her vocals on this are stunning in places.
Why does she have to call herself Nite Jewel though, Ramona Gonzalez is such a brilliant name.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 30 June 2012 21:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
haha. i think nite jewel's totally apt tho. nite jewel ft. ramona gonzalez
― blossom smulch (schlump), Saturday, 30 June 2012 21:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
i just caught these guys. so great! the live band kills in a totally different way from her & emily bopping to keyboards. prophet cover, too <3
― , Blogger (schlump), Sunday, 15 July 2012 22:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
They will be covering Computer World live in NY next month
― calstars, Sunday, 15 July 2012 23:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
saw her/them last night, was v good although the audience was tiny. i thought she was popular/hip/whatever! my favourite bit was the vocoder-free version 'all out of order,' it sounded incredible.
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 12:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
so true!, i saw them in a kinda full-enough room but i thought they would be a cool thing & it'd be rammed. it was nice though, eventually everyone was dancing & all; from the start it felt like it would've been a better show to be dancing to than staring at foot-tapping. i had thought all out of order was natural causes, not really recognising it. i really liked let's go (the two of us together), for being the first really explosive weird disco thing, & it goes through your head, which was so exciting.
― , Blogger (schlump), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 13:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
yes it would have been good for dancing but i feel a bit self-conscious doing that in a mostly empty room, so i settled for head nodding instead. 'it goes through your head' was another highlight for sure :)
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 13:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
first record fiiiinally reissued on wax, w/bonus tracks inc a dam mix of what did he say:
http://secretlycanadian.com/blog/2012/08/nite-jewel-announces-reissue-of-debut-album-good-evening/
woop
― , Blogger (schlump), Thursday, 9 August 2012 19:54 (10 months ago) Permalink
the cover of the inner space song is good too.
going to see her in NYC in a few weeks
― calstars, Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
Finally got around to hearing the newer stuff. I'd almost forgotten about her, even though I'd expected her to become somewhat popular. 'In the Dark' is great, her voice is really strong. Reminds me of Tracey Thorn, perhaps, maybe because of that wistful quality? It'll be that kind of song you love that ends up on an anodyne chill-out compilation. I was a fan of Good Evening and played it a lot for about a year but its appeal wore off a little. I think the production worked for most songs, especially in that it had a specific kind of tone and texture that appealed to my sensibilities, but I'm glad she's gone for a more polished, less dank kind of sound on the latest album. I've seen some of her influences, and she strikes me as someone who's been angling to make this kind of music for a while. It seems quite comfortable for her, which is not to say the music's perfunctory, but I could see her wanting to move on from the gauzy lo-fi thing, which probably wouldn't have gone anywhere esp. interesting after an album that suffered from sameness and lethargy at times.
― bed raggled (qiqing), Monday, 10 December 2012 11:44 (6 months ago) Permalink
good evening is a classic for all time
― what is google (schlump), Monday, 10 December 2012 15:34 (6 months ago) Permalink
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:21 (4 months ago) Permalink
I could care less about the rapping but NJ is great as usual
― calstars, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:55 (4 months ago) Permalink
love this stuff so much. hits all the right buttons.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 15 February 2013 01:53 (4 months ago) Permalink
"nite jewel" really does sound like some italo disco studio ensemble whose lead sings the english language phonetically. which is great.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 15 February 2013 01:55 (4 months ago) Permalink
saw an interview with her from her australian tour recently where she said she was finishing up a new record that was more uptempo
― monotony, Friday, 15 February 2013 05:39 (4 months ago) Permalink
feeeeling this
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 21:42 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
ilx play this in your kitchenson your patioson your expensive headphones
new jam so nice
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 23:12 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
man that LA show is tremendous
― Oral Sex in Sharp’s Ridge Park (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 23 May 2013 00:01 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
I have no patience or something because whenever I turn it on I just have to turn it off or put something else on :(I really like the melody she was fuckin w/ in the first 30 secs or so
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 23 May 2013 00:17 (3 weeks ago) Permalink