NITE JEWEL thread

love this shit.

"universal mind" is the jam.

I don't know anything about this but both the band/act name & the title you cite are fuckin rad.

artificial intelligence is my fave.

I love "Artificial Intelligence." Was surprised to find out she had only just signed to IDIB after putting out a few singles elsewhere; that name is just so on-the-nose.

yeah i just assumed it was a johnny jewel project.

just listened to it for the first time. it's pretty great. i wish it wasn't AS lo-fi. i dig the concept of it, but i think it could use to get rid of some tape his and eq it better. it reminds me of a lost minimal synth record.

max, you didn't mention that she went to your lolcollege

check out Fan Death if you haven't. not lo-fi at all, but mining the same IDIB terrain

i've only got the 12", it's aight. is it the girl from chromatics on vocals as well? if anything it proved that jj knows how to write a really infectious bassline

it makes me think more of early 80s electro rnb than it does minimal synth

i like this a lot more than fan death, the stylized lo-fi production def does it for me. it seems like she's aiming for something more like bedroom pop than anyone else on idib, almost like that tickley feather record from last year but slightly danceable

yeah this shit is mellow as fuck, thank you max, really enjoying

johnny jewel doesn't have anything to do w/this, does he?

not with anything she/they've recorded so far, i don't think. but nite jewel is part of an idib party next week, which would be tempting if i didn't have plans that night. (although tbh i'm kind of skeptical of how that stuff plays live. it seems more tailored to headsets, car stereos and late-night living room soundsystems.)

I love Artificial Intelligence to death.

great set on fmu a week or two back, worth checking out. even spacier than on record.

can't wait til 'want you back' is in my hands (april i think)

loved these dudes live last week.

album is so hot.

i need to check this out

It's only available on vinyl, right? I love all the IDIB stuff (a lot) but this one hasn't appeared for sale on iTunes or eMusic or anything. I have heard one song on a sampler and it was really, really great. Can't get enough haunting icy horror movie soundtrack-y stuff.

i think i like "universal mind" much better than everything else on here, and sonically it's quite an outlier. the rest is there but doesnt do much for me

its available on CD too! or it was--may be sold out. mike had it at the italians store for a while. the album is actually out on human ear (vinyl) and gloriette (cd), not italians... she just has done a couple 12" w/ them, plus opened for glass candy a couple times.

A+ album

still waiting on "want you back" 12" on idib. i will flatly not hear most of this summer's best songs but it is the kind of thing i want to christen THIS SUMMER'S SUMMEREST JAM.

lp is a real grower. the lover cover used to fade by but its slink has swayed me.

the album is actually out on human ear (vinyl) and gloriette (cd), not italians...

aha... looks like it's the reverse: Human Ear has the CD, but it's still listed as a "pre-order" (even though the release date is listed as December 25th, 2008). It's $12. The vinyl on Gloriette is sold out. Another Google link showed there was some other CD-R thing (different from the album) sold exclusively through the Other Music site last year, but that's all gone.

Is it not really worth it, money-wise, for small labels like IDIB/Gloriette/Human Ear to sell stuff digitally? Or why else wouldn't they?

Mike was putting the IDIB stuff on iTunes for a while, but the newest ones (Bottin, Nite Jewel, Twisted Wires) haven't shown up on there.

whoops yeah, youre right

the CD-R that was other music only is mostly stuff that ended up on good evening i think

in one form or another

yeah I think "Good Evening" = "My CD" (the cdr thing) plus some bonus tracks off her 12"s

CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF THIS FUCKING RECORD! So goddamn good!

^^Exactly....252 listens in a week. "What Did He Say" is pretty damn special.

still haven't heard the album but the first 12" has been played all year since i got in like november i think. really good. i see it as a dark and moody take on all those great sassy female vocalled west end tracks like "another man"

is she good live? playing over here in august

i remember askin someone - maybe slocki? - and he gave her the thumbs up

i never usually buy $10 12" singles but the new one is so great

<3

so dreamy. "want you back" is like a melted fantasy of madonna.

her weakest track...the ONLY weak track.

ha, no. the album does have some weakish tracks, but they don't bother me in the context of the album. but "want you back" is peak material. it's not afraid of itself.

Can't stop listening to Want You Back

that "artificial intelligence" song upthread is really nice. the synths are very nostalgic to me. they remind me of joe jackson or something. or like 80s yes.

i like the new song, bass is really huge and gets me

Want You Back is pretty awesome

yea - love want you back. not lo-fi at all compared to her other stuff

Really loving Want You Back.

The video: http://vimeo.com/6148270

this reminds me of pauline murray and the invisible girls...in places, it's a great record.

yea this record rules hard

also julee cruise

Love this. Heard from folks who saw her in London that it was a bit dull live, but I guess I can see it might. Great stuff though.

nite jewel + dam-funk = Nite-Funk
http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2009/12/am-i-gonna-make-it.html

dope!

Thks mizzell! lovin' it!

he's been dropping her name a bunch. makes so much sense now.

Me and my dad love these two. This new wave of lo-fi/no-fi goodness keeps getting better and better. It's all very "cable access performance".

stop smoking that shit for once

I had high hopes for this but my goodness, is this ever the wrong end of the 80s for me

I do like the hook on the chorus, though, when her voice comes in and it's all pretty

it just reminds me of the "nightclub" scene in so many cop operas on telly in the late 80s

But that shit is bomb, Shasta...oh so bomb.

good evening being reissued on stones throw?
http://www.stonesthrow.com/messageboard/index.php?showtopic=18121

also nite funk= whole album! (sorry if that's old news but i just assumed am i gonna make it was a 1 off)

I assumed Nite-Funk as a one-off as well, but this news of a whole album is the kind of shit that gets me excited.

There is going to be a Nite Jewel thread on the roof of a building in my town in a couple of weeks and I'm pretty stoked.
I just hope it gets some promotional help, or that the right few people tell their friends about it. It's the kind of event that could easily fly under the radar.

Nite Jewel show.

weird! i was just trying to think of nite jewel driving last night, keep meaning to investigate

"Want You Back" is my favorite. I've only got a crummy rip of Good Evening, it'd be nice to hear that on vinyl.

new ep comin'

https://digital.othermusic.com/img.php?s=175&i=46942

woo at tonight
makes me want to walk down the street shadowboxing like a dick

YOU F O sort of came and went without anyone noticing it seems.

new song "am i real?" w/ teen inc is really good:

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/off-the-record/nite-jewel-teen-inc-am-i-real-mp3/

speaking of teen inc, they rule. "fountains" is ridiculous:

http://teen-inc.net/

you f o was pretty hard to get hold of though. some of the new one is revised versions of what was on it.

what was that? new alb??

I figured it was maybe tour only. I got one from them on the road.

that's how i bought teh first one

tour only, uh huh. some of it was on a japanese 7" too i think. i liked another horizon the most. think stones throw are rereleasing her LP, too.

this teen inc stuff sounds like level 42. not a knock of course

teen inc is good when they have more than 2 songs we should give them a thread

oh cool someone tell them

nose goes

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

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.

haha. i think nite jewel's totally apt tho. nite jewel ft. ramona gonzalez

i just caught these guys. so great! the live band kills in a totally different way from her & emily bopping to keyboards. prophet cover, too <3

They will be covering Computer World live in NY next month

saw her/them last night, was v good although the audience was tiny. i thought she was popular/hip/whatever! my favourite bit was the vocoder-free version 'all out of order,' it sounded incredible.

so true!, i saw them in a kinda full-enough room but i thought they would be a cool thing & it'd be rammed. it was nice though, eventually everyone was dancing & all; from the start it felt like it would've been a better show to be dancing to than staring at foot-tapping. i had thought all out of order was natural causes, not really recognising it. i really liked let's go (the two of us together), for being the first really explosive weird disco thing, & it goes through your head, which was so exciting.

yes it would have been good for dancing but i feel a bit self-conscious doing that in a mostly empty room, so i settled for head nodding instead. 'it goes through your head' was another highlight for sure :)

first record fiiiinally reissued on wax, w/bonus tracks inc a dam mix of what did he say:

http://secretlycanadian.com/blog/2012/08/nite-jewel-announces-reissue-of-debut-album-good-evening/

woop

the cover of the inner space song is good too.

going to see her in NYC in a few weeks

Finally got around to hearing the newer stuff. I'd almost forgotten about her, even though I'd expected her to become somewhat popular. 'In the Dark' is great, her voice is really strong. Reminds me of Tracey Thorn, perhaps, maybe because of that wistful quality? It'll be that kind of song you love that ends up on an anodyne chill-out compilation. I was a fan of Good Evening and played it a lot for about a year but its appeal wore off a little. I think the production worked for most songs, especially in that it had a specific kind of tone and texture that appealed to my sensibilities, but I'm glad she's gone for a more polished, less dank kind of sound on the latest album. I've seen some of her influences, and she strikes me as someone who's been angling to make this kind of music for a while. It seems quite comfortable for her, which is not to say the music's perfunctory, but I could see her wanting to move on from the gauzy lo-fi thing, which probably wouldn't have gone anywhere esp. interesting after an album that suffered from sameness and lethargy at times.

good evening is a classic for all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1R7GWh3CNY

I could care less about the rapping but NJ is great as usual

love this stuff so much. hits all the right buttons.

"nite jewel" really does sound like some italo disco studio ensemble whose lead sings the english language phonetically. which is great.

saw an interview with her from her australian tour recently where she said she was finishing up a new record that was more uptempo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAWtCeemo-E
feeeeling this

ilx play this in your kitchens
on your patios
on your expensive headphones

new jam so nice

man that LA show is tremendous

I have no patience or something because whenever I turn it on I just have to turn it off or put something else on :(
I really like the melody she was fuckin w/ in the first 30 secs or so

Saw her last night. She played at least one new song, I think it will be called 'Mean What You Say' or something like that. Nice uptempo thing. She said it's going to be a long time before we get to hear the album. The rest of the show was older, slow stuff.

Instrumental project thing: http://maia29.bandcamp.com/album/29

A pleasant atmospheric listen, probably best experienced in a convertible driving around LA on a summer night.

hear it feeling like a hal hartley protagonist striding ever forward into crisp bright engulfing summer wind

https://soundcloud.com/damfunk/can-u-read-me-nite-funk

New thing with dam funk

Oh wow!! I just got obsessed with her music a few days ago. This is a treat.

beautiful

New soundcloud joint
Smooth and silky
https://twitter.com/nitejewel/status/654705172757614593

https://soundcloud.com/nite-jewel/words-w-batmanonthebeatz

This AMTHST ep is pretty but maybe a little too drifty. For very sedate listening only.

yeah. I bought it but I prefer her pop stuff, cf. "It Goes Through Your Head"

New joint!

https://soundcloud.com/nite-jewel/boo-hoo-2

I think I might kinda like this, but who knows.

think this is my fav lp sleeve ever

also v surprised that this doesn't visibly seem to consist of any of thr great between-lps songs that came up once in a while. so hyped

wasn't thrilled by this song, seems to lack some of the sharper song writing from the last album

She vocal sounds a bit like Grimes on the first half or so of the track

Totally, don't know if that's what she's going for or if it is more of a callback to her earlier stuff

whole record is home-recorded straight to tape just by ramona i think! so i hope so

I wonder how much Cole had to do with the record.

liquid cool comes out tomorrow...first listening now and I'm in love with her all over again. it's a much different record than One Second...more homemade, more emotional

does it have hooks?

Not as many as One Second

It sounds a lot more full-bodied than anything before, thd production is very thick and humid. Not a great deal of hooks and her voice feels somewhat obscured but I still enjoyed it.

hmm, new one not hitting the sweet spot very often. feels a little underworked at times; the songs sometimes seem to go on forever with minimal variation. feels like a holding motion, honestly.

i hate this thread

except calstars

congrats all of you on being in the company of the guy from p4k who wrote a review complaining that this is not a wilco album

you now & running out of time so so classic

the first song also

I'm into this album, which is a relief because I didn't think much of the last one.

congrats all of you on being in the company of the guy from p4k who wrote a review complaining that this is not a wilco album

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Nothing But Scenery is awesome and deep

yeah so heavy & unusual; bc it starts so unadorned it was v surprising to play the record & hear it, but it has shades of the weird repurposing mission nj records have generally, i think. i remember reading some interview w her forever ago where she talks abt synthetic sounds from the eighties having a second act, like there having been a literally creative phase in which instruments were invented but their use being sort of truncated by the limits of the era in which they were populated, & it's so hazy & kind of eerie to hear her duet in sync w/ chiming synth noise

agree, it's a very strange *sounding* album but can't put my finger on exactly how

i don't like the vocals

Too much echo and reverb. There seems to be some good singing underneath all of tgat, but it's hard to tell.

Nite Funk is out today. Dam's jams are nice and Ramona plays a subdued role vocally for the most part.

i will pay for the next year of ilx hosting if i am allowed to delete this thread

mods

?

i am just being difficult but i am enjoying this record so much !, + then halfway thru listening i remember the internet's ambivalence + kick a hole in the speaker, snap the arm from the turntable, take a bite out of the record + beat my chest wailing like harvey keitel. i saw her play w julia holter a few nights ago. it is such a good record, i think, + super interesting to hear her talk abt it existing as a kind fundamental full-circle nj record, like sharing so much dna w the first lp. the slow jams really grow on me too.

i bought the lp + read the v spare words for the first song i'd been getting hung up on, i still can't tell why it's spookin me so, living in this quiet zone. so gd !

im gonna go see her on wed im excited, not planning on listening to the new alb before that tho

there was some local witchhouse opener i dug it tbh

nothing but scenery really stands out imo

this is as good as the first lp i think, rly classic

I'm warming up to it, but I wish it had more hooks

this is rly the 'i wish it had likable characters' of music to me

will always be enamoured with Ramona but yeah
I can recommend her Maia thing on Bandcamp

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

OK wow I love her again

Nite Jewel's last full length was pretty decent (particularly like "Running Out of Time"). Opening with "Nothing But Scenery" was an odd choice though as it feels like the album loses momentum instantly.

Do all the LA artists go to the same beach up the coast to shoot their videos? I feel like I just saw one like this starring weyes blood.

3 listens in
Sounds like a jammier version of "goes through your head"
Happy to hear the major key cues

this is so damn good, it's been stuck in my head all weekend

Sounds good blaring from the stereo

Love this track she did for GTA too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkBwPmExtv8

Heard an advance of the full thing...it's nice? Not deathless.

Tell us more Ned...does it sound like the last one or is it brighter? Like the hypnagogic pop of her first one or less slanted?

https://youtu.be/Gc-uwh12myM

New one not as upbeat as the other but still very welcome
Kind of wish I could make out the words though?

Here's my attempt at most of it:

I saw you out
it was in a dream
you talked to me
but what did it mean?

took me home
sitting on the couch
it was dark
I was out

please don't let the light in
cuz we're trying
to find you in the space that's in between us
yeah

i still believe in space
cover up my eyes again
seem like you're away (?)

is it you (??)

....

the answer is love
the answer is love

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I thought it was "the answer is no"

Yeah I think it's "no". Seems like this album is a logical progression from Nite-Funk so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqGO9VkoX-U

Looks like Nite Jewel also just put out an EP called "Obsession", all tracks below

http://www.gorillavsbear.net/stream-nite-jewels-obsession-12-ep/

Newest one "had to let me go" is the most funky of the singles so far:
https://open.spotify.com/track/520q1SyVf34r6sz44383bJ

Wish the Meters could play rhythm on it.

^ Nice track. "Obsession" EP has grown on me; it's uniformly chill which initially turned me off, but I found it compelling in the rain today. Sublime and insular, with the highlights "Real High" and "Real Low", gorgeous tracks with alien, aquatic synth bursts.

Haven't heard the EP but will ASAP

I also think this latest one is the one she's most invested and engaged in

Yeah this might be my favorite since One Second days

This album is so good

"Clive" from One Second goes perfectly into Death In Vegas "Girls". Tracks separated at birth

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNqUrPN0FE4YpGgfMydVZ23ohE-bvKOqI

Here's the Obsession EP

^ Awesome, calstars. "Real Low" is beautiful.

very much in character but i love this record

this record is so dreamy and beautiful. i've loved her since good evening and it's so great to see her produce a record as solid and confident as this without losing her character, like brad said

This album is so good. I really wasn't that excited when I put it on as Liquid Cool didn't do a lot for me. I think this could be her best album.

Starting to think kitchen is right that this is her best album. It's gorgeous

Pretty bummed I can't see her tomorrow night cuz I'm unemployed/broke. That's life

album's been growing on me, might have to give last year's ep another shot.

Moodles, you mean Nite-Funk? Yeah that's a good one and indicative of where she ended up on this new one. Turns out I'm seeing her tonight after all, so stoked - one of my favourite artists

I should give that one another shot too, but I was thinking of Liquid Cool, which I forgot was a full album.

Saw her last night and she was great. Duo with a keyboardist which allows Ramona more of an open air to sing and not play keys primarily. She's a wicked musician and a great singer, particular highlights were a blistering version of "Running Out of Time" and "What Did He Say?"

Also "Obsession" EP has become the dark counterpoint to "Real High". It contains many of the same tracks but is much more sullen and comedown than the LP. "Real Low" revisits the title track from her last LP in instrumental form and is lovely.

Kitchen person OTM this is her best album

Yeah, I would definitely take away the "think" part of my original post. This is her best work and one of the year's nicest surprises.

it's just 2 good 2 b true

yeah i love her first but this is the record she was born to make. course correct of One Second of Love. felt a bit weird hearing a track in starbucks

this album is definitely not front-loaded. it seems to peak in tempo in the middle and carry that for 3 tracks, culminating in a suite of some of her finest chill songs to date. The only weak spot is "I Don't Know"

I like that song. Pretty much like the whole album, in fact.

it was great live, loved the break

I went to see her last week because it was only £7 and I thought that seemed like a decent deal. I had forgotten just how many truly great songs she's made over the years and it was brilliant, her live voice was flawless.

the answer is the soty imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc-uwh12myM

of 2017, time lapse

Not to rank on her latest stuff, but I really miss Cole’s participation

Real High was one of my favorite albums from last year, I'm surprised it didn't get more love on here.

right there with ya Moodles

Real High was one of my favorite albums from last year, I'm surprised it didn't get more love on here.

― Moodles, Friday, February 9, 2018 5:28 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erjtza8eSaU

ultra lush, from the "Obsession" EP - which is a perfect transitional record from "Liquid Cool" to "Real High". EP starts with the title track from the newest and is book-ended by "Real Low", an instrumental version with more pronounced surface noise and an extended outro. Whole EP feels like a come-down and falls more in line with the nite-funk feel. PM me if you're interested

https://www.stereogum.com/1999281/nite-jewel-on-your-own-the-jokes-on-you/music/

new nite jewel

Yup yup! Will be listening later

New one has some of the old joyful bump of her earlier EPs

I like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA-kEdVp2to

: )

wow that's great

oh wow, love it

love her, love the new track, excited for the record

was just listening to real high yesterday and was wondering what she was up to. this is beautiful

I’m guessing from the notes to this single that she and cole have split ?

First para of the press release

In 2018, Gonzalez’s twelve year marriage dissolved. This left her alone and displaced, drifting from friend’s couch to friend’s couch. At the same time, she began her PhD in Musicology at UCLA. Gonzalez’s research on women’s musical lament practices formed a historical backbone for what became No Sun. Dating back to ancient Greece, the lament has utilized female voices as a vehicle for expressing communal and personal grief. In her research, Gonzalez considers this tradition within the context of contemporary pop divas, asking the question “What does it mean to be a professional mourner?” or to be a woman hired as an emotional vessel for a historically male composer? Gonzalez’s research considers the creative power of such singers, arguing that while often seen as visceral performers alone, these women are agents in their own right.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6GlrYBxZk67foyYiNvoU0a?si=TNA0iEg6Ti6xV7ZtkY_58g&dl_branch=1

New uptempo Collab sounds great , heart shaped / want you back era vibes

I prefer happy jewel to recent reflective sad jewel

i am deeply here for reflective sad nite jewel - super excited for her artistically at how she's taken her core sound and driven it somewhere you wouldn't have thought it could go? listening to that first single felt a bit like watching s3 of twin peaks - the familiar made somehow strange, the denial of expectations leading to something more deeply satisfying

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

No Sun is out now, going to check it out today

I listened, sounds pretty mopey and introspective if that's your thing. A lot of songs seem to start with "I..."

Actually I like the vibe of this. I wasn’t sold on the tracks that came out pre-release, but overall I think it’s really nice. A “mature” album I guess? Contemplative and all that. But still has some of her late-night grooves.

Title track is downright jazzy.

loving this so far

eternal sea of darkness
eternal sea of darkness
eternal sea of darkness

hmm this is interesting, really quiet and restrained but then lets loose more on the last two tracks, those are great

She has some stuff on band camp now that’s not on Spotify
This “real low” b-sides album is very pretty in places

https://nitejewel.bandcamp.com/track/how-it-was

Also rec her latest release from 23, skinny dipper