(it has a great cover shot, apparently by his 4 year old daughter)
Love this.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha, the other I just did a search to see if anyone had been talking about Loscil on ILX and there was absolutely zip in the search. Now there is, and good. Have really been enjoying the new one, and thought Plume was pretty good too. Wasn't actually aware he was from Vancouver (or part of Destroyer) until last night. Huh!
― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I seem to remember back in the mid-90s the big acts on Kranky were Labradford, FSA, Stars of the Lid, and Jessamine. Jessamine really seems to have been forgotten...
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Did they tour much? Can't remember. A very good band for sure, maybe rediscoveries are nigh.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
But wait, FSA? They were VHF and Drag City unless I've completely misremembered.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
No, I'm mis-remembering. Coulda swore they were on Kranky but I'm mistaken.
Jessamine were hit and miss but when they hit they were terrific.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Sunday, 3 October 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Really fond of Jessamine, but I wonder if they got overlooked a bit due to vocals (which were kind of ordinary indie-schmindie compared to their sound). Totally amazing drummer, whose name I don't know. I still play "You Have Ugly Talents, Martha" and "You May Have Forgotten" and "Pilot-Free Ignition" on a regular basis.
― dlp9001, Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
new Belong record on kranky is really really great
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
YES! New Belong! <3 I´ve only heard the one song they released online, I´m waiting for the vinyl to arrive!
Is the album pretty much like that song, ´Perfect Life´?
This band is so criminally overlooked. One of my greatest musical discoveries of the last decade I think. Somehow they found a place between all existing music and made it so uniquely their own. I know no other band that sounds like them, not on a deeper level.
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I caved and downloaded the album. All your fault Ilxor! ;-)
Enjoying the shit out of this. Cannot wait for the vinyl!
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
hah nice, i have done my good deed for the day!
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah loving the belong album. quite difft to the EP of theirs i have. like a more gentle soft moon
― fried egg on my mind (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
wow i am listening to this song
http://www.futuresequence.com/article/review-belong-common-era/
goddam this is great
― what do it take to be a legend like noz is? (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
WOW,thanks for this recommendation, the part at 2:15 on the very first song ("Come See") blew me away. new shoegaze that doesn't suck, and doesn't feel like a lesser copy of some antecedent. sold.
― Z S, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it's really good! glad everyone's latching on so easily. every year there's basically 1 or 2 great shoegaze/dream-pop albums. this year it's Belong (for me anyway)
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Thursday, 17 March 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
It's odd but I've never really linked Belong to shoegaze, not directly. For me they emerged mostly out of noise and reverb-drenched pop echoes on previous records. Seems that pace-wise they are stepping it up on this record though, it's less "druggy and slow, and suddenly it really is very shoegazey. Amazing.
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 17 March 2011 08:46 (thirteen years ago) link
just listened last night. very good!
― original bgm, Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
will order this tomorrow night.listening to Kranky Kompilation now, what a consistently kickass label
― CharlieS, Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
my full thoughts on new Belong album here
this is highly OTM:
Somehow they found a place between all existing music and made it so uniquely their own.
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks. That's a great review ilxor! The Cure reference makes total sense too.
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks! people can say "shoegaze" til they're blue but the main touchstone i hear is '80s cure :)
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Monday, 21 March 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
which is total ilxor-bait but hey...
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Monday, 21 March 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ilxor otm - I gave this a quick listen today (it's now up on Spotify), and the Cure was one of the first things I thought of. Need to hear it again, but this does sound like a big step up from their previous.
― ka£ka (NickB), Monday, 21 March 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
what did the pitchfork reviewer get wrong?
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15235-common-era/
― j., Tuesday, 22 March 2011 06:41 (thirteen years ago) link
if he wants them to retread October Language, he might as well just put on October Language again, iirc
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Really enjoying this Implodes album on first listen. Anyone know anything about them?
― ridic beau (NickB), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 11:06 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2O4cVxQINk
Loving this, and probably preferring it to the Belong album, although it's not all that dissimilar. Hearing traces of Slowdive and Flying Saucer Attack and Low and good stuff like that.
― ridic beau (NickB), Thursday, 21 April 2011 13:22 (thirteen years ago) link
...but duh it is on kranky after all
― ridic beau (NickB), Thursday, 21 April 2011 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
saw em live about a year ago and was kinda ....boredthe record sounds much better though im not quite sold on the vocals yet
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 21 April 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Implodes includes Matt Jencik from Don Cab and Hurl
― felldownawell, Sunday, 24 April 2011 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Dunno why it took me so many damn years to find this out, but this first Jessamine album is just fucking great.
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
Damn right.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
My cd copy of it skips :((((((
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
Their whole catalog is on Spotify.
― john. a resident of chicago., Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah it's great! What's people's favourite one? And what do the Jessamine folks do these days?
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
Fave Jessamine release is the Another Fictionalized History singles compilation. Great great stuff. The two team-up albums with Sonic Boom are also well worth tracking down (especially the A Pox On You EP)
After Jessamine, Andy (keyboards) and Rex (guitar) went on to form Fontanelle (couple of albums, also on Kranky). Andy also records as Southerning. Dawn Smithson (bass, vocals) has a couple of albums out too.
Unexpectedly, just about all of Jessamine has been part of Sunn O)))'s touring band at one point or another. Couple of them appear on Monoliths & Dimensions
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks Chris!
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
The two team-up albums with Sonic Boom are also well worth tracking down (especially the A Pox On You EP)
funny, i thought Pox was the only one! hmmmm
first Fontanelle album is excellent
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 28 July 2011 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
enjoying the new disappears record. no massive departure.
― the majestic ned? (electricsound), Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
my favourite label circa 99/02.
been digging some of it's older releases these past few weeks (trip down memory lane?). tho some of it hasn't aged that well (1st dissolve record, amp, bowery electric, etc), there are still a couple of underated gems in there : doldrums, flies inside the sun or pan american...
never heard the first jessamine. only ones i have are 'don's stay too long' and 'long arm of coincidence'. don't recall them that well (same with spiny anteaters, also).
― rusty_allen, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
First Jessamine rules. First Kranky release I picked up.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Jessamine had a great sound. Listen to "Royal Jelly Eye Cream" off that first record, it rules.
― grandavis, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
Hey now, I'm STILL an Amp fan. Had a new album this year and everything.
Agreed on the worth of Jessamine.
Also! Magnog have reunited and are playing out. Dana Shinn's on Facebook and the band's on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/magnogmusic
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
Just gonna go ahead and post this to encourage any wavering souls to give it a listen, such a cool guitar sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlEhlYOtnHs
― grandavis, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
Really excited to hear this, loved the live thing they did with Steve last year.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
Love the one song I've heard from the new Disappears album. I love both their other albums and, so far, don't really mind if they keep refining the same sound.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Saturday, 25 February 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
dreamscape do some pretty sweet dream pop, even if their drum machine sounds a bit too secret shine-ish
― booger pickup (electricsound), Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I just read this, had never heard of them before:http://www.factmag.com/2012/07/06/kranky-to-issue-retrospective-of-long-forgotten-shoegaze-combo-dreamscape/
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Friday, 6 July 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha, they really wanted to release an EP called "greater than god," didn't they?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 6 July 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
lool i was totally unaware it was secret shine related
― booger pickup (electricsound), Friday, 6 July 2012 23:15 (eleven years ago) link