Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature

I guess you’re right, it is being referred to as an album (I’ve been thinking of it as an EP; it doesn’t quite feel album-y to me).

Taken me a while to get round to this but damn it's beautiful. Perfect as the evenings draw in and the year wheels into autumn.

I've returned to this after a bit of a break and ... it's utterly magical.

I think the record this reminds me of most is Stina Nordenstam's Memories of a Color. It's warmer overall, but has a similar coherence of vision and emotional tone.

She’s got a new EP out that seems to contain demos and other stuff related to the last album.

Great alt lyric (from the demo):

Call me Michelangelo
I’m a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
My DNA looks pretty strange
Must be something in the water

Is that the real lyrics?

Yes!

I think I may actually prefer this to the album itself (...which still feels more like an EP to me, although it does squeak over the 30 min. mark). Obviously it's more "for fans," though, not a starting point.

Buying this tee immediately!

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0240/6114/9236/products/turtleshirt_720x.png?v=1634748579

The alternate version of the album is very good.

Aware of this?

https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/cassandra-jenkins/the-ramble-morning-and-night-ep

I wasn't!

Is the alternate version actually available (in the UK)? Website I've ordered from says the CD was available in November ... but it hasn't arrived.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkGu3F5gAX4

new track for a label comp

Did anyone hear The Ramble (Morning and Night)?

Strange, I've not even seen a link to it.

It's not even on her Bandcamp (I do see it at Rough Trade).

Ta. Yeah, I can see it at Rough Trade in the US and UK but there don't appear to be clips from it. I'm intrigued but would like to hear some of it before shelling out £20.

Weird - still haven't managed to hear it. It's seven quid off at Rough Trade (UK), by the way.

Eventually ordered this despite not having a working record player and Ba Da Bing were decent enough to send me a download when I explained this! Haven't really been in the space to absorb it properly despite having played "An Overview ..." and "(An Overview on) An Overview ..." a lot this week.

Just saw her live at End of the Road festival. I love this album - my favourite of the last year or two - & was a little worried that it wouldn't really translate (particularly to a festival stage) but, no, she was amazing, easily the best thing I saw. Captured that soundworld and she really finds the songs, if that makes sense, emotional, charismatic, cathartic - ok it was the Sunday of a hard weekend but I was near tears.

https://cassandrajenkins.bandcamp.com/album/chale-jaana-cassandra-jenkins-suhail-yusuf-khan-live

(Would be £16.35 postage to the UK, which I can't really justify.)

New track out according to a mailing list email (Can't actually get any of the links to work yet, mind).

Dawn of a new era😈 “Only One” is coming out tomorrow🌊
“Sea sick dawn come to tear off another page” pic.twitter.com/sZYefzaPjZ

— Cassandra Jenkins (@CassFreshUSA) April 15, 2024

i'm not seeing anything on streaming yet but there is this teaser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68aMst5uDKQ

video's out in 7 hours

really looking forward to new music from her

Hell yeah, same!

the single's lovely, she's gone full sophisti-pop

my light, my destroyer is out 12 july

01 Devotion
02 Clams Casino
03 Delphinium Blue
04 Shatner’s Theme
05 Aurora, IL
06 Betelgeuse
07 Omakase
08 Music??
09 Petco
10 Attente Téléphonique
11 Tape and Tissue
12 Only One
13 Hayley

press release cites: tom petty, annie lennox, neil young, the bends, pj harvey, the breeders, pj harvey, pavement, blackstar, and the blue nile

and that's really quite a track list lol

Oh yeah, this is nice. Up for this album for sure.

Just had an email about a Rough Trade exclusive - a bonus CD of extra tracks with the vinyl.

Actually, a 2-CD version as well.

new song is fantastic — she is great

Wow, this song is legit. I got kinda burned out on CJ, but I'm here for it

great news!

mostly i'm wondering how she's going to make all the sonic reference points fit together. "only one" is pure sophisti-pop but how is that going to fit with the 90s alt rock that's apparently a major influence elsewhere on the album?

"Destroyer" in the title of this very Kaputt-sounding* album is cute.

If you list Blue Nile and Annie Lennox as inspiration/RIYL for your album, I'm gonna think of that amazing "Downtown Lights" cover and immediately be on yr street team.

*The one song, anyway