CIRCUIT DES YEUX / JACKIE LYNN (Haley Fohr)

Surprised there isn't a thread for her already. I saw her open for Animal Collective in May and her set blew me away, brutal & intense acoustic guitar drones & vocals. Reminded me of the more blown out parts of Jim O'Rourke's Bad Timing and Eric Copeland's live sets. Such a compelling performer, she seemed almost feral, her face hidden by hair and swathed in bright red lights. She has a pretty low voice, Nico-ish in range. I got her 2015 record In Plain Speech at that show, and just got her new one Reaching for Indigo in the mail the other day. Doesn't sound anything like that solo set I saw in May, but I'm really digging it, and I think she's touring right now with a band. Also recently learned that she put out a record under the name Jackie Lynn last year.

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& their opener CIRCUIT DES YEUX was amazing!!! @CircuitdesYeux pic.twitter.com/Ht6EJqMEvK

— Nicky Smith (@MUGGER1992) May 23, 2017

One of my favorite musicians out there, I can't recommend her work enough. What a voice! I think Reaching for Indigo is one of her best so far. For those into the more DIY-noise/drone/etc. realm that she emerged from and is still connected to, I also highly recommend earlier work such as Sirenum, which had a big impact on me.

LL tipped me off to her stuff in weyes blood thread; i listened to some of her previous albums but they were too caterwauly for me but the new one is p tuneful

was great live when I saw her

Jackie Lynn was great and the new one's maybe even better. I think "Black Fly" is her best song yet

Haven't listened to the new one yet, but I agree that she's great live. I saw her set in August at a festival and even though she was playing to a small-ish crowd at 4 PM in full sun, she absolutely delivered.

"paper bag" is kinda jarboe singing lead in ANGELS of LIGHT instead of m. gira

her stuff isn't something i'm necessarily up for listening to every day but def respect her and yes she is amazing live

need to hear the new one, but I absolutely loved In Plain Speech. never checked the Jackie Lynn because the concept was a bit off-putting tbh

the mind over mirrors stuff that she’s on is also worth hearing btw - check ‘the voice calling’

i was also kinda put off by the overall concept of the Jackie Lynn LP, but it is actually very very good.
new CDY is great on first few spins.

New album is so amazing

enjoyed reading about her favourite albums in the quietus and especially glad she picked 'miss america':

http://thequietus.com/articles/24318-circuit-des-yeux-baker-s-dozen?page=1

i caught her live last month btw and it was phenomenal tbh, her voice was huge

also she's on spotify now, no more excuses for people not to know about her

Just getting to the most recent album. I'd never heard her but for some reason thought it was supposed to be more ... folky? But this is total '70s experimental cosmic-folk prog Scott Walker psychedelia or something.

'Black Fly' is so good, love the expectation subverting first two lines ('Nobody said it was easy/But it was so... easy') and the violin descending into the maelstrom of the second half. Have been playing the album on repeat but none of the other tracks have grabbed me quite as much yet.

The live EP Gaia Infinitus is v. good, too. "Black Fly" sounds incredible there.

Here it is:

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

Superb, thanks. Amazing that Benedict Cumberbatch finds the time between all his film roles to be a professional drummer too.

https://jackielynn.bandcamp.com/

Amazing new album of (only slightly) uncanny pop. Big hooks, swooning strings. "Odessa" has "Anamorphose"-y moves. Circuit Des Yeux shows are some of the best I've ever seen, but now that they're out of reach it's cool to get this slice of studio bliss.

Listening now. Great. I prefer Jackie Lynn to Circuit Des Yeux. This one doesn’t quite have the consistent concept album feel is the first but new wave disco stuff is a delight.

Hadn't really heard her/them before. Started listening to Vanishing, like it a lot. Reminds me of something - maybe Marianne Faithful?

Saw her premiere the new album with a string section in NYC and it was amazing. She is an incredible performer, that voice is really something else.

Xpost get some Walker Brothers/Scott Walker vibes from this new one

People say that and Nico but one thing that I always think about is Judy Henske's Farewell Aldebaran.

Vocal sound/timbre/range is def more Nico, but something about the vibe reminded me of Marianne Faithful circa Broken English. But that doesn't seem like the right comparison either. IDK.

Broken English is colder.

Surely im not the first person to mention the new album here? Halo on the Inside. Might be my favorite yet, holy moly.

Yeah this is really good

Loving this one too. “Dogma” from the last one was huge for me but I was lukewarm on the rest. This one is great front to back.

I know it's only March but Halo On The Inside is a strong contender for AOTY already.

Can't think of many vocalists with this particular range, her voice is quite startling but so strong. I'm not sure what genre I would assign this new album to. Is Witch House still a thing? But the combination of deep, intoxicating voice with the dark, otherworldly electronics hits me in the same way that bands like Malaria! used to back in the day.

Canopy of Eden is such an intense journey of a song. Amazing build and structure. So impressive.

Don't know if her cover of Double Dare has been mentioned on the thread? There are not many bands that can really do justice to Bauhaus, both vocally as well as musically but this is a treat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDNE56f02oo

it is very very good

I think Sculpting the Exodus was the first one I ever heard. Came on a random playlist and I had a visceral 'WTF did I just hear?' response that made me go back and play the whole album.

Those are the moments I live for in music discovery. A chance listen. A sound that is absolutely arresting! Then you spend the rest of the afternoon digging into every other thing that artist has ever done.

I have a habit of checking something out and not quite getting it until later. Like I had one of her older albums and thought it was interesting but didn't think much about it. Then I discovered the first Jackie Lynn album and fell in love. Then Reaching for Indigo and I went back and got everything else.

I've seen her twice, once at the Knockdown Center in NY with a string section, and another time at the Greenwood Cemetery, which was magical but we wimped out when it started to rain.

I loved her around the Reaching for Indigo era and thought she was great live at that time, but I haven’t really gotten in to anything she’s done since then. Sampled the new one and feel like it’s not for me…she’s gone pop with some Nine Inch Nails-like sonic tricks? I’m sure it’s deeper than that but I’m not sure I’ll ever really find out because I was so disengaged with what I did hear.

This is making me curious as to what was different about Reaching For Indigo because Halo seemed like a natural progression from -io

I unreservedly love this one and think it might be her best yet, but then "gone pop with some Nine Inch Nails-like sonic tricks" is more than deep enough for me.

Exactly. 'Pop with industrial elements' is my sweet spot. (Hence why I'm all over that Soft Ballet thread.)

It was odd. After going back and listening to Reaching For Indigo, my feeling was 'this is nice, kind of orchestral folk' but it was the power of her astonishing voice that made it good. Like, there's something monumental, almost architectural about the scale and power of her voice. On one level, having a restrained, polite folky backing did highlight her voice nicely as a powerful singer.

But when you put her monumental voice up against big slabs of tectonic synths and weird industrial sounds provides a completely different frame. On one level, makes it more startling. But on another level, to put this strange voice against these strange sounds makes her sound more natural and elemental.

Sorry if I'm not making sense!

I loved Black Fly off Reaching For Indigo but not much else. Most of these are good to great to jaw dropping incredible. Cool to hear it's produced by Andrew Broder, I was quite keen on some of his stuff 20 years ago (Fog and his weird little rap 'remixes') but had no idea what he'd been up to since then.

seeing her in about a month play bk with leya. looking forward to it

I'm slowly checking out her other work. Oracle Song on -io is not exactly in the spirit of the rest of the album but it is *such* a beautiful song. Jackie Lynn seems like the Haley Fohr I can listen to at home without annoying my wife.

Saw her show on Saturday. Truly incredible and Alan Sparhawk was on guitar.

Alan Sparhawk was on guitar.

oh wow how cool! I'm so distractable now I haven't listened to the new one much since getting excited about it when it came out, gotta get back to it