new jonnine album is out:https://jonnine.bandcamp.com/album/maritz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3IXuzBvwTc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSBPwhPJkIE
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
Speaking of Jonnine, I stumbled on her talking about Rowland S Howard etc on this 4AD-focused podcast a couple of days ago:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ZLRXG5ecAZlx3dRXu8atn
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 16 February 2023 00:35 (one year ago) link
i adore this band and have binged their back catalog so hard over the past year. i love the more stripped-down warmth of the last few albums but i think my fave thing they've done is 'work (work, work)', that decadent gauzy narcotized quality of it is so intoxicating to me. exquisite 'walking around the seedy part of the city late at night' music. very excited for whatever they do next
― donna rouge, Friday, 1 December 2023 19:32 (four months ago) link
yeah totally agree re work - i was vaguely aware of them prior but when that LP came out i was out-of-nowhere obsessed in a way I hadn’t been since Disintegration cane out - listened to it relentlessly for months - like, totally surprised to be crushing so hard on a band/album at a stage of my life when i thought i was past that kind of intense teenaged relationship with music
and i think i remember Jonnine talked about it as somewhat directed at teenage girls / her teenage self perhaps - but that disaffected anhedonic quality also resonated really deep for me drifting aimlessly through corporate life and trying to remember how to feel human emotions
(was also really impressed by the way they actually addressed the fact of work in their work - like, i think they explained the title as referring to the effort to earn a living - and the effort of having a creative project - and the effort of maintaining a relationship/s - and that each of these 3 was a full-time commitment yet we are expected to cram them all into the same 7-day week)
i saw the album launch at an incredibly hot and sweaty sold out show in a basement bar in sydney - i have seen them play a literal dozen times since but that show is in my top 10 ever, just that combo of seeing the band you love at the exact moment they are stepping into their power - they opened with Fascinator (omg what a song) and then played most of the album and it was hypnotic
this video is from a few days later and captures some of that vibe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkF3xO3z3Cw
anyway didn’t mean to write an essay! but enjoyed thinking about loving this album - so thank you for the prompt
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Friday, 1 December 2023 21:09 (four months ago) link
really cool to hear Jonnine on the new actress album
― brimstead, Friday, 1 December 2023 21:32 (four months ago) link
missed that. thanks for the heads-up
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 1 December 2023 21:39 (four months ago) link
htrk weather here now, thanks all for the reminder that i should be listening to them more
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 1 December 2023 21:42 (four months ago) link
listened to it relentlessly for months - like, totally surprised to be crushing so hard on a band/album at a stage of my life when i thought i was past that kind of intense teenaged relationship with music
this is basically my relationship to this record, too.
that explanation of the title is interesting, lends another dimension to the proceedings. they were living in berlin at the time they were writing the album, right? based on interviews i've read with them it seemed like they were all kind of miserable there, even leaving sean's death aside.
that concert sounds amazing. i've watched bits of that church performance before, the sound quality of the recording isn't the best but the video still conveys how immense those songs are, would've loved to see their shows from this era. the part time punks radio version of "fascinator" is my favorite one and that live version sounds even more enveloping/abrasive, damn
― donna rouge, Saturday, 2 December 2023 01:33 (four months ago) link
yeah pretty much the only ‘band’ that matters now. tapped in to the beyond-the-veil
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Saturday, 2 December 2023 17:30 (four months ago) link
Man, where has this band been all my life, only discovering them now. Loving Rhinestones and pretty sure will end up adoring the electronic stuff
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 10 February 2024 10:36 (two months ago) link
For me, Psychic 9-5 Club is the smoky heart. They’re such unassuming people but the comment about crossing beyond the veil nails it exactly.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 10 February 2024 12:48 (two months ago) link
Listening to “Give it Up” with the speakers cranked so the electronic sizzle of the drum machine background noise hangs in the air like a malevolent entity
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 10 February 2024 12:51 (two months ago) link