This is really great! FYI if you are in the US and still looking, I was able to get a CD copy from Midheaven.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
Still my favorite album of 2021, too. Some of it ("Ambiguous Norway") reminds me a lot of Bon Iver's self-titled album, albeit more restrained.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link
certainly a contender for my favourite this year
― ufo, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
Liking this - Live on KEXP at home - a lot (Have just skipped to the songs so far):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg_ijQmHVPo
― djh, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 10:44 (two years ago) link
^I was watching this last nite; nice performances for sure.
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Thursday, 24 June 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
(she also seems like a cool person, for whatever that's worth)
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Thursday, 24 June 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
Yeah, yeah she does.
― djh, Thursday, 24 June 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link
She's an interesting artist: has been recording a while, but has only released one full-length LP, plus various EPs and singles. It feels like she sort of focuses on "minor statements" instead of grand gestures, and records when inspiration strikes (maybe approaching music-making similar to how a visual artist works?).
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Friday, 25 June 2021 01:11 (two years ago) link
Then again, I guess multiple EPs & singles are pretty common these days (on every level of the biz).
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Friday, 25 June 2021 01:12 (two years ago) link
i've listened to this album while on sunset walks a dozen times since spring -- i'm not sure it would make sense to me in any other context now -- and it's easily my favorite new record in a long while
― Clay, Friday, 25 June 2021 01:35 (two years ago) link
this year's album was her second full-length though?
― ufo, Friday, 25 June 2021 03:03 (two years ago) link
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).
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Friday, 25 June 2021 03:23 (two years ago) link
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.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 4 September 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
I've returned to this after a bit of a break and ... it's utterly magical.
― djh, Saturday, 2 October 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
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.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
She’s got a new EP out that seems to contain demos and other stuff related to the last album.
― apparent beef squash (morrisp), Sunday, 21 November 2021 02:32 (two years ago) link
Great alt lyric (from the demo):Call me MichelangeloI’m a Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtleMy DNA looks pretty strangeMust be something in the water
― apparent beef squash (morrisp), Sunday, 21 November 2021 02:35 (two years ago) link
Is that the real lyrics?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 21 November 2021 04:10 (two years ago) link
Yes!
― apparent beef squash (morrisp), Sunday, 21 November 2021 04:28 (two years ago) link
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.
― apparent beef squash (morrisp), Sunday, 21 November 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link
Buying this tee immediately!
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0240/6114/9236/products/turtleshirt_720x.png?v=1634748579
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Friday, 3 December 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
The alternate version of the album is very good.
― djh, Friday, 3 December 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
Aware of this?
https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/cassandra-jenkins/the-ramble-morning-and-night-ep
― djh, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
I wasn't!
― Rockin’, and rollin’, and whatnot (morrisp), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 20:14 (two years ago) link
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.
― djh, Thursday, 27 January 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkGu3F5gAX4
new track for a label comp
― ufo, Friday, 25 March 2022 08:05 (two years ago) link
Did anyone hear The Ramble (Morning and Night)?
― djh, Thursday, 31 March 2022 21:22 (two years ago) link
Strange, I've not even seen a link to it.
― djh, Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:16 (two years ago) link
It's not even on her Bandcamp (I do see it at Rough Trade).
― ass time permits (morrisp), Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
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.
― djh, Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:58 (two years ago) link
Weird - still haven't managed to hear it. It's seven quid off at Rough Trade (UK), by the way.
― djh, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 20:48 (two years ago) link
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.
― djh, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:50 (two years ago) link
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.
― woof, Monday, 5 September 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
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.)
― djh, Friday, 2 December 2022 08:12 (one year ago) link
New track out according to a mailing list email (Can't actually get any of the links to work yet, mind).
― djh, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 06:44 (two months ago) link
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
― ufo, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 06:50 (two months ago) link
really looking forward to new music from her
― ufo, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 06:53 (two months ago) link
Hell yeah, same!
― H.P, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 07:56 (two months ago) link
the single's lovely, she's gone full sophisti-pop
my light, my destroyer is out 12 july
01 Devotion02 Clams Casino03 Delphinium Blue04 Shatner’s Theme05 Aurora, IL06 Betelgeuse07 Omakase08 Music??09 Petco10 Attente Téléphonique11 Tape and Tissue12 Only One13 Hayley
press release cites: tom petty, annie lennox, neil young, the bends, pj harvey, the breeders, pj harvey, pavement, blackstar, and the blue nile
― ufo, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:15 (two months ago) link
and that's really quite a track list lol
― ufo, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:16 (two months ago) link
Oh yeah, this is nice. Up for this album for sure.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:20 (two months ago) link
Just had an email about a Rough Trade exclusive - a bonus CD of extra tracks with the vinyl.
― djh, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:31 (two months ago) link
Actually, a 2-CD version as well.
― djh, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:33 (two months ago) link
new song is fantastic — she is great
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:37 (two months ago) link
Wow, this song is legit. I got kinda burned out on CJ, but I'm here for it
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 16:03 (two months ago) link
great news!
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 06:52 (two months ago) link
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?
― ufo, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 08:05 (two months ago) link
"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
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:27 (two months ago) link
I'd not heard that Annie Lennox cover before and it has just had me blubbering into my porridge.
Love the new Cassandra track too. Interested to see where this goes.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 20 April 2024 08:03 (one month ago) link
You've all clocked the UK/Europe tour? Tickets went on sale this morning at 1000 and I had tickets before 1001!
― djh, Friday, 3 May 2024 16:04 (one month ago) link
yup, I love An Overview more than almost any album from the last few years and it was under my skin in mysterious ways - but I'd also always thought 'this might be a real one-off of where I am and what she's made, but that is totally cool and I am purely grateful'. But I'm really liking this so far and am very open for this one.
Like I'm weirdly ready to be disappointed but she doesn't - as I found upthread -
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.
― woof, Thursday, 16 May 2024 20:44 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgczzmHDe20
she's good at alt rock too but i kinda wonder how all this stylistic variety is going to fit together on the album
― ufo, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 22:43 (two weeks ago) link
I have the same concern too but I have faith that it'll work
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 00:24 (one week ago) link