NITE JEWEL thread

does it have hooks?

Not as many as One Second

It sounds a lot more full-bodied than anything before, thd production is very thick and humid. Not a great deal of hooks and her voice feels somewhat obscured but I still enjoyed it.

hmm, new one not hitting the sweet spot very often. feels a little underworked at times; the songs sometimes seem to go on forever with minimal variation. feels like a holding motion, honestly.

i hate this thread

except calstars

congrats all of you on being in the company of the guy from p4k who wrote a review complaining that this is not a wilco album

you now & running out of time so so classic

the first song also

I'm into this album, which is a relief because I didn't think much of the last one.

congrats all of you on being in the company of the guy from p4k who wrote a review complaining that this is not a wilco album

― schlump, Saturday, June 18, 2016 12:27 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Nothing But Scenery is awesome and deep

yeah so heavy & unusual; bc it starts so unadorned it was v surprising to play the record & hear it, but it has shades of the weird repurposing mission nj records have generally, i think. i remember reading some interview w her forever ago where she talks abt synthetic sounds from the eighties having a second act, like there having been a literally creative phase in which instruments were invented but their use being sort of truncated by the limits of the era in which they were populated, & it's so hazy & kind of eerie to hear her duet in sync w/ chiming synth noise

agree, it's a very strange *sounding* album but can't put my finger on exactly how

i don't like the vocals

Too much echo and reverb. There seems to be some good singing underneath all of tgat, but it's hard to tell.

Nite Funk is out today. Dam's jams are nice and Ramona plays a subdued role vocally for the most part.

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i am just being difficult but i am enjoying this record so much !, + then halfway thru listening i remember the internet's ambivalence + kick a hole in the speaker, snap the arm from the turntable, take a bite out of the record + beat my chest wailing like harvey keitel. i saw her play w julia holter a few nights ago. it is such a good record, i think, + super interesting to hear her talk abt it existing as a kind fundamental full-circle nj record, like sharing so much dna w the first lp. the slow jams really grow on me too.

i bought the lp + read the v spare words for the first song i'd been getting hung up on, i still can't tell why it's spookin me so, living in this quiet zone. so gd !

im gonna go see her on wed im excited, not planning on listening to the new alb before that tho

there was some local witchhouse opener i dug it tbh

nothing but scenery really stands out imo

this is as good as the first lp i think, rly classic

I'm warming up to it, but I wish it had more hooks

this is rly the 'i wish it had likable characters' of music to me

will always be enamoured with Ramona but yeah
I can recommend her Maia thing on Bandcamp

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

OK wow I love her again

Nite Jewel's last full length was pretty decent (particularly like "Running Out of Time"). Opening with "Nothing But Scenery" was an odd choice though as it feels like the album loses momentum instantly.

Do all the LA artists go to the same beach up the coast to shoot their videos? I feel like I just saw one like this starring weyes blood.

3 listens in
Sounds like a jammier version of "goes through your head"
Happy to hear the major key cues

this is so damn good, it's been stuck in my head all weekend

Sounds good blaring from the stereo

Love this track she did for GTA too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkBwPmExtv8

Heard an advance of the full thing...it's nice? Not deathless.

Tell us more Ned...does it sound like the last one or is it brighter? Like the hypnagogic pop of her first one or less slanted?

https://youtu.be/Gc-uwh12myM

New one not as upbeat as the other but still very welcome
Kind of wish I could make out the words though?

Here's my attempt at most of it:

I saw you out
it was in a dream
you talked to me
but what did it mean?

took me home
sitting on the couch
it was dark
I was out

please don't let the light in
cuz we're trying
to find you in the space that's in between us
yeah

i still believe in space
cover up my eyes again
seem like you're away (?)

is it you (??)

....

the answer is love
the answer is love

....

I thought it was "the answer is no"

Yeah I think it's "no". Seems like this album is a logical progression from Nite-Funk so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqGO9VkoX-U

Looks like Nite Jewel also just put out an EP called "Obsession", all tracks below

http://www.gorillavsbear.net/stream-nite-jewels-obsession-12-ep/

Newest one "had to let me go" is the most funky of the singles so far:
https://open.spotify.com/track/520q1SyVf34r6sz44383bJ

Wish the Meters could play rhythm on it.

^ Nice track. "Obsession" EP has grown on me; it's uniformly chill which initially turned me off, but I found it compelling in the rain today. Sublime and insular, with the highlights "Real High" and "Real Low", gorgeous tracks with alien, aquatic synth bursts.

Haven't heard the EP but will ASAP

I also think this latest one is the one she's most invested and engaged in

Yeah this might be my favorite since One Second days

This album is so good