NITE JEWEL thread

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

She vocal sounds a bit like Grimes on the first half or so of the track

Totally, don't know if that's what she's going for or if it is more of a callback to her earlier stuff

whole record is home-recorded straight to tape just by ramona i think! so i hope so

I wonder how much Cole had to do with the record.

liquid cool comes out tomorrow...first listening now and I'm in love with her all over again. it's a much different record than One Second...more homemade, more emotional

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

get off the internet

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