NITE JEWEL thread

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...

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

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

Looking forward to hearing this

Love this.

Sounds like a Dirty Projectors record at times ('She's Always Watching You' esp.)

shit is mad smooth

hoping that she plays with a band on the tour

really like mind & eyes

http://pitchfork.com/tv/yours-truly/1894-nite-jewel/3097-shes-always-watching-you/

Completely in love with this girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDhVSoRGT40

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

She played Kraftwerk's Computer Love last night in LA...wish I was there.

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.

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

@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.

haha. i think nite jewel's totally apt tho. nite jewel ft. ramona gonzalez

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

They will be covering Computer World live in NY next month

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.

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.

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 :)

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

the cover of the inner space song is good too.

going to see her in NYC in a few weeks

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.

good evening is a classic for all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1R7GWh3CNY

I could care less about the rapping but NJ is great as usual

love this stuff so much. hits all the right buttons.

"nite jewel" really does sound like some italo disco studio ensemble whose lead sings the english language phonetically. which is great.

saw an interview with her from her australian tour recently where she said she was finishing up a new record that was more uptempo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAWtCeemo-E
feeeeling this

ilx play this in your kitchens
on your patios
on your expensive headphones

new jam so nice

man that LA show is tremendous

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

Saw her last night. She played at least one new song, I think it will be called 'Mean What You Say' or something like that. Nice uptempo thing. She said it's going to be a long time before we get to hear the album. The rest of the show was older, slow stuff.

Instrumental project thing: http://maia29.bandcamp.com/album/29

A pleasant atmospheric listen, probably best experienced in a convertible driving around LA on a summer night.

hear it feeling like a hal hartley protagonist striding ever forward into crisp bright engulfing summer wind

https://soundcloud.com/damfunk/can-u-read-me-nite-funk

New thing with dam funk

Oh wow!! I just got obsessed with her music a few days ago. This is a treat.

beautiful

New soundcloud joint
Smooth and silky
https://twitter.com/nitejewel/status/654705172757614593

https://soundcloud.com/nite-jewel/words-w-batmanonthebeatz

This AMTHST ep is pretty but maybe a little too drifty. For very sedate listening only.

yeah. I bought it but I prefer her pop stuff, cf. "It Goes Through Your Head"

New joint!

https://soundcloud.com/nite-jewel/boo-hoo-2

I think I might kinda like this, but who knows.

think this is my fav lp sleeve ever

also v surprised that this doesn't visibly seem to consist of any of thr great between-lps songs that came up once in a while. so hyped

wasn't thrilled by this song, seems to lack some of the sharper song writing from the last album