NITE JEWEL thread

Forget You and I is gorgeous.

Weak For Me is perfect. The rest of the songs tend to get a little too moody and lost.

The newer stuff is much more consistent imo.

i hadn't been paying attention and missed this whole EP, but it's gorgeous.

i think i'm just waiting til the next LP to see if she's kinda jumped the shark in terms of ditching her woozy futuristic bedroom-synths thing, in favour of overtly celebratory eighties music. i like it all just as much, but it seems like a weird, deliberate step, that doesn't usually bode well for musicians.

the new one is pretty jiving anyhow

How many copies of Good Evening were made on vinyl? I wanna bid on one but don't wanna over pay.

^^
a bunch, i thought?, in case you're still thinking about it. it's getting re-pressed on stones throw sometime, anyway.

she's collaborating with julia holter at the minute, which sounds like a good combo

it does go for crazy money though, yeah

Blatant self-promo: I'm DJing with Nite Jewel after their show with James Blake tonight in San Francisco. Shock is playing, too (new band w/Dan Judd aka Sorcerer also from cosmic disco outfit Windsurf).

info: http://publicsf.com/events/nite-jewel-dj-set-4597

8/10/2011 Nite Jewel plays Kraftwerk’s Computerworld at Hard Rock Cafe (Hollywood, CA)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p2MrgTVY9A

gonna keep propping up this thread because ^^^
her new rec is done i think

thats good to hear, i've been wanting some new nite jewel in my life for a while.

the ep & 12" were both v compelling in different ways, i thought. 'natural causes' or its remix popped up on shuffle a few days ago and really struck me. so nice texturally. i'm kinda curious to hear what the new one's like - i think because i assume it'll be hi-fi & lively, & so not bear the lo-fi, slo-mo & slinky characteristics that made me love the first one - but sorta feel like i'll just love it regardless. NJ are kinda special to me because i didn't listen to a lot of this kind of synth music beforehand, or only to some of the particular reference points it seems to swirl up, & so they maybe get extra credit for like concocting stuff they didn't actually invent. but yeah it thrills me that some is en route!

I was at the Computerworld show. Was v. cool

the clip above is terrific. it sorta sounded like live drums on another clip, but it was just her or ..?

Just her. The drums/rhythm track seemed to originate from her laptop.

Any news?

What happened to Nite Funk/Dam Jewel???

Also why isn't thread like 10 times as busy???

Jamming this all the live long day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPK1NsAQYxU

She should work with Sasu Ripatti next

also uh oh

She has collaborated with Julia Holter and Cole M.G.N. of Haunted Graffiti, curated two exhibitions at the Tiny Creatures gallery, and performed the work of Michael Pisaro. She was a philosophy student at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles.

Did Max go to school w her? CAN THE SUBALTERN SPEAK?

oh ADAM

MAX...hello

Any news?

What happened to Nite Funk/Dam Jewel???

the NJ record is done & occasionally people on twitter are all omg you gotta hear this!, but there's no release or anything, yet.
& yeah at jamming it goes through my head on repeat -- the dam funk remix particularly, and 'natural causes'. nj is so slinky.
i think nite funk finished an ep, idk what's happening with it though.

her & j holter play with linda perhacs semi-regularly, now, too, i think. oh & there's this -- http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/12440-see-blind-through-ft-ramona-gonzalez-of-nite-jewel/

Every once in a while I listen to "Want You Back" just to remind myself it's one of my favorite songs of the last whatever many years. More plz.

oh word, so classic. i seldom buy 12"s but that's such a keeper.

http://www.laweekly.com/content/printVersion/1081737/

old news but i dig her writing style

still bump "am i real" on the regular these days

woooooooooooooooooooo
http://yourstrulysf.bandcamp.com/album/nite-jewel-shes-always-watching-you

Hmm.

no what happens is you are all 'hmm' and then a month later you are all swinging around lampposts shouting IT-GOES-THRU-YOUR-HEAD (YES-IT-DOES) on the street

What's not to like? That song's great.

maybe its guitar backbone is less appealing than synths to some. i kinda love her in this hi-fi mode, now, though, & that as someone for whom the bedroom-synth thing was special, felt v current, etc.

just went back to her stonesthrow podcast, loving the patrice rushden & prophet picks

i kinda love her in this hi-fi mode, now, though,

Was just gonna say the same. I love the drifty earlier stuff too, but I also like that she's not afraid to actually make great dance pop, not just sort of reprocess it. And I love the hard, bright edge on the guitar there. Sounds great.

yeah, agree. i think, i guess because after the first record there was her new stuff, & also finding out about her touchstones & hearing her spin & stuff, there is that danger that she would make the leap into just adoringly, meticulously recreating music she loved. but i think that this is all kinda sharp & quick & sincere enough to skirt that - elements like the bass-playing are definitely learnt from previous music but she is making great, new, collaborative music. i still play good evening all the time anyway, & things like 'natural causes' are back to that mindset.

anyhow i can't wait for the lp, if it wasn't mentioned above it's early 2012 on secretly canadian.

No, I LOVE 'It Goes Through Your Head'! This one's not happening for me (I'm willing to grant that could be a 'yet').

let us reconvene. i ordered the single & i don't think will hear 'sister' til it lands on my doormat, so we can see how it has aged then. really wanna catch her playing sometime soon - think it might be solo shows? - but won't be in the right place at the right time.

but yeah it goes through your head is great, dam funk remix just as dope too

http://secretlycanadian.com/blog/2012/02/nite-jewel-pre-order-starts-today-instant-download-with-purchase/

i am not in the us, so am not, but getting i am real free would sway me into pre-ordering.

also
http://nylonstylus.tumblr.com/post/17605980978/in-the-dark-off-of-la-based-nite-jewels this lp is gonna be really weird & is gonna slay

new song at the secretly canadian link rules

this album is pretty chill

is it out?

it's "out". Autograph is really dreamy

yeah. i'm still playing in the dark, all day long. i have a bunch to write about the record but might wait until more people have heard about it. because there are parts - the first song! - & there is the cover, which make those moves towards affiliation and kinda more overt affectation, i think, w/a lot of '80s music, all of which i think came up upthread when she was releasing it goes thru your head, &c, in hi-fi. i'd imagine the angle from which it does this is probably some of the subject of the big sprawling ilm destroyer thread, playing with a genre, playing with a form. even the sleeve, to me in some ways it's kinda a retro image to make, and in other ways i think it's just trying to be strong like those records, like a patrice rushen lp that puts the singer up front as a face on the lp, & making a record that will look the same way ten years from now. but it's interesting in a lot of ways. there are a couple of songs where the live drums make me really miss the nj slink, & some where the synth sounds don't coast or glaze or ride like good evening did in its way - just has become a preexisting form it loved & descended from instead of the weird, evolved byproduct that thing had produced. but it hits some really great highs too, & like memory man, say, becomes something that sucks me in more the more of a hold i get on it, which i think will happen with all of it. the words etc. i can't work out if she mentions heating up something in the microwave at some song towards the end of the record. she's so my fav, just so pleased to be around for these records.

Yeah this is awesome. Lot of cool little left field touches - country twang on "Memory Man", Frippesque guitar on "Sister"...

sister is still one of my fav things she's done, it's perfect. there is another jam on the lp that is in the same territory but doesn't quite synthesise as well.

and it's a bonus track, weirdly. Not that that means much these days

yeah. i bought an expensive seven inch from yours truly, w/it, & it's warped. i need to fuss around & try to get another.

in the dark, i played it all day long. singing a little below her range & then all up, high, little skips where the drums quicken, occasional edges of guitar strings, it's so great.

favorites:

She's Always Watching You
In the Dark
Memory Man
Autograph

i have a fondness for mind, mind, mind, mind, mind, mind, mindandeyes