spinning off from the rodan thread:kickstarting her next record, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tarajaneoneil/a-new-offering-by-tara-jane-oneil
her recent 7" is v pretty, also. i am a real sucker for her escalating vocal harmonies.
― blossom smulch (schlump), Friday, 13 July 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
there is a new song. I'll link it in a sec, & her record is out in January on kranky! &! the song cuts off abruptly enough that maybe the record smearily blurs into itself, like tracer does. swoon.
― schlump, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 03:20 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/kranky/tara-jane-oneil-wordless-in
― schlump, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 03:21 (ten years ago) link
i am so excited for this
― mustread guy (schlump), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link
i haven't really spent a lot of time with this yet but she makes such mature records, i think; they're always so sensitively recorded, sound immaculate, digress away from her songs very directionally. i listen to her & remember that i like a bunch of people she's probably played on bills with, i like grouper + jana hunter + charalambides, that in some ways she probably fits an aesthetic profile of Stuff I Like, vocals not upfront, guitars strung out like somehow the wind was involved. but i think she's so singular; the attention to percussion is like fully half of what's going on, the noise pieces have this classical edge, there's a real mood to her guitar that's almost more like an eastern gabor szabo thing than it is a haunting-spooky-reverb vibe. i am not super bitter to be the only one bumping this thread liveblogging her in-between-record silences, but they're such great, timely, sleeper records, i think, the last - & maybe this!, idk yet - as just ... good + nice to have on hand as most anything
― mustread guy (schlump), Sunday, 9 February 2014 02:58 (ten years ago) link
man i hate to use the term underrated cuz overrated/underrated is usually such a boring conversation but man tara jane o'neill is so ridiculously underrated
― balls, Sunday, 9 February 2014 03:51 (ten years ago) link
I also think her cover of Springsteen's "I'm On Fire" is the greatest song ever
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 9 February 2014 06:48 (ten years ago) link
^^funny how in 2003 i was like "i need to hear this!" and had no way of doing so.
― jaymc, Sunday, 9 February 2014 07:44 (ten years ago) link
― balls, Saturday, February 8, 2014 11:51 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^
in one of my few-times-a-year T J O Moments; all of these songs are such gifts, she's really as good as anybody
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 05:07 (nine years ago) link
Her album from this year was terrific.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 05:26 (nine years ago) link
Waaaaait, I didn't even know she had a new album! That's amazing news.
Yes, massively underrated. Aside from Rodan (which I still can't really get into), I love everything she's touched. Definitely one of my most frequently listened to artists.
― My Name Is You (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:32 (nine years ago) link
"Where Shine New Lights" - came out back in March or April.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, it's really wonderful in an understated way.
― one way street, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
The openness of her song structures on it and her sensitivity to silence and negative space remind me a little of the last Grouper album (as per schlump's comparison upthread), but of course she's been exploring this sound for considerably longer.
― one way street, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
I saw her perform earlier this year. She played four or five songs relatively straight, by herself. Then she invited a guy up who played keyboards and they basically just droned for 30 minutes and it was phenomenal.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
yeah i saw the same kinda show, once, w/pajo on drums; she'd throw old film canisters turned into rattles out into the crowd, so there was this real chain-clanging panoramic percussion thing on top of everything
& i don't think there's really a stylistic overlap sufficient enough to make her senior to grouper's junior. they used to share a studio in oregon i think.
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 18 December 2014 07:49 (nine years ago) link
listenin to tara jane o'neil
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 02:47 (eight years ago) link
#
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 02:48 (eight years ago) link
And she apparently has a new solo album out! She seems to fly so completely under the radar. Which is a shame, because she might be among like my top five currently performing musicians.
― Download this Man With Hamburder And Mug (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 May 2017 13:43 (six years ago) link
New album is nice though I need to spend some more time with it.
Earlier this month I went back and listened to all of her solo albums. I realize why I stopped paying attention to her early on - her first couple records just sort of sound like a softer, unplugged version of that mathy/noodly Louisville sound she helped usher in with her previous bands. But around her third or fourth album she moved into something a lot more interesting and relaxed.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 12 May 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
New album, “Yoake” - on first listen but so far very good ambient guitar stuff.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 10 February 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, February 10, 2019 bookmarkflaglink
I really liked this when it came out and listened to it a lot for a couple of weeks, then forgot about it. Returning to it today and it's still really beautiful.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 21 October 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
didn't even know. glad you bumped this!
― maffew12, Monday, 21 October 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
the sonora pine ii reissue sounds really nice, digitally at least, great record.
― adam, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link