Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter

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Featuring sultry vocals and great guitar work from ExWhiskeytown Member Phil Wandscher Oh My Girl is my favorite cd from 04. Reckless Burning, her prior cd, is also damn good. Bring the love here.

Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Saturday, 25 December 2004 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought Jesse Sykes was the singer for Eagles Of Death Metal. Perhaps I am mistaken...

Nancy Boy (Nancy Boy), Saturday, 25 December 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Reckless Burning is very nice if you like trance inducing dirge-like country music. good nap music. im gonna have to check out Oh My Girl...

ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...
Anyone want to talk about the new record? This sort of American trad music isn't usually my thing but I dig her voice. To those better informed: what is comparable and how does JS stand up?

call all destroyer, Friday, 23 March 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

two years pass...

i found a copy of reckless burning on vinyl for a few bucks last night. she's really good.

jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

New one has a lot of Floyd / Dead going on. A grower. Didn't dig it on first pass but this time through it's sounding pretty sweet. Anyone?

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 21 August 2011 01:24 (twelve years ago) link

Nobody, huh? Shame. I haven't felt so conflicted about a record in a long time. I mean, it's a legitimately great record, and I keep coming back to it, but I keep wavering between 'whoa masterpiece' and 'did this get mixed up at the pressing plant with some weirdo pop psych Radioactive reissue?'I'm not sure I'm listening because I love it or because it's so...strange!

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 21:50 (twelve years ago) link

i am liking it a lot

mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link

Haven't heard the new one - will have to check it out. Reckless Burning and Oh My Girl are fantastic. Her voice plus Wandscher's guitar = heaven.

that's not my post, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 06:24 (twelve years ago) link

I loved her first two albums, but then she kinda fell off my radar. Listened to her new one yesterday, and I'm not sure what to make of it. I think I need to turn off all the lights and give it a hard listen.

thinveneer, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link

two months pass...

this is one of the best records I have heard in forever, agreed, it's more of a psych/UK folk record than alt-country and better for it...

just stunned by this album really. wow.

the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link

seriously!

the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link

tylerw needs to get up on this shit - new album Marble Sun in particular

the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link

ha, ok, i'll check it out.

tylerw, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link

listening on spotify -- this does sound cool!
kind of has a late 60s floyd-y folk thing happening which rules.
i've heard bits and pieces of sykes before, but this sounds more up my alley.

tylerw, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link

yeah i went through her older albums and they are good, but she seems to have gotten way more psychey and spacey and jammy and better as time goes on, kind of evolving out of alt-country

the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link

This is really a game changer for her. Don't expect to find anything else in her disography half this spacey and weird. I'm STILL not sure if I like it! But I listen to it all the time!!

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link

i'm pretty much in love after a couple listens

if she had a weird band name and was signed to some drag city subsidiary i think all the kool new weirdo america kidz would boner over this

the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link

yeah seems that way -- when i see her name, i think of no depression magazine.

tylerw, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link

She should change her name Jesse Psych & the Sweet Psychs!

tylerw, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link

five years pass...

I think Marble Son is the only album of her's that I don't love. good album for sure, but i don't really feel the same emotional resonance with it that I do with the others.

though I'm sure I'll love it after 5 more listens

just another (diamonddave85), Saturday, 22 April 2017 03:23 (seven years ago) link

I completely skipped over Oh, My Girl at the time and just discovered it. might be my favorite one

just another (diamonddave85), Saturday, 22 April 2017 03:25 (seven years ago) link

Reckless Burning and Oh My Girl are fantastic. Her voice plus Wandscher's guitar = heaven.

still true

that's not my post, Saturday, 22 April 2017 05:50 (seven years ago) link

one year passes...

Just discovering her and getting that urge to plunge... The Air is Thin is practically making me levitate.

Could anyone compile a top 10 primer type thing?

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 20 July 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZdZnhV1EUk

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 10 April 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link


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