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

"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