NITE JEWEL thread

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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

She sounds like Yukimi Nagano on 'In the Dark'

i kinda get a Beach House vibe from that one

unearthly delights & clive slowly unfurled, revealed themselves, after more listening. they feel a nice evolution of the other part - the kinda less '80s/disco part - of the dna of good evening, which you hear a little in natural causes & elsewhere. i am really into this now, after being slightly thrown at first.

clive just kills me. the words.

if she took this record, put a load of hazy disco filters over everything then, like, recorded it over an old reel to reel to degrade the sound.. it would be 100%

nah

this shit is mad smooth, didn't know she had it in her.

one has to think though, is CGN really the mastermind behind her new found pop shininess? you could kinda hear it on good evening, but it was skewered and just slightly off in a good way and now this...

Well it was produced by Cole MGN of The Samps and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti but i see no reason to think it wasn't an entirely collaborative effort. That's why i don't understand merked's comment, the pop smoothness of the thing is what makes it work. Couldn't get into Good Evening at all

that's what i liked about Nite Jewel in the first place, the bedroom sonics.. the songs on the new one are sculpted with a lot more purpose and confidence, and so are the vocal performances (this new assurance is probably what's allowed her to step out from behind the haze) - but i still liked that old sounde

Looking forward to hearing this

Love this.

Sounds like a Dirty Projectors record at times ('She's Always Watching You' esp.)

shit is mad smooth

hoping that she plays with a band on the tour

really like mind & eyes

http://pitchfork.com/tv/yours-truly/1894-nite-jewel/3097-shes-always-watching-you/

Completely in love with this girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDhVSoRGT40

i heard this on a mix NJ made for bomb, it's so funny how it's the same kinda palette/genepool as her first rec

She played Kraftwerk's Computer Love last night in LA...wish I was there.

I was there - it was pretty great. I'm not a big Nite Jewel fan but they did a good job of it after a slightly shaky start.

Also it was the headlining portion of a "Krautrock Classics" night. First half of the night was a bunch of bands doing one-off covers. DNTEL did Faust's "Jennifer," Ariel Pink and White Magic teamed up for a song (I didn't recognize who the originator was), ESP did Can, Sun Araw did Krokodil, and another group did a Popol Vuh song. Whole night was pretty awesome.

feel like everyone would be into this: nice Russian thing, prod. by NJ:

http://www.lookatme.ru/my/my/10-new-names/168733-10-molodyh-muzykantov-ifwe-i-nite-jewel

@gr8080

I keep coming back to this album, "Autograph" and "In The Dark" are amazing songs but the whole thing is so smooth and languid, yet with all these idiosyncratic sonic touches that keep it interesting, and her vocals on this are stunning in places.

Why does she have to call herself Nite Jewel though, Ramona Gonzalez is such a brilliant name.