posted Sep 30, 2008, 11:19 AM by Vu Nguyen
From Tell All Your Friends The Jealous
Girlfriends Debut "Organs On The Kitchen Floor" Video
Play
Webster Hall, NYC This Saturday Oct 4th With Shudder To Think and Pattern
Is Movement
October Tour With The Wedding
Present 
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Debut Video For “Organs On The Kitchen Floor”
Pitchfork Media :
Jealous Girlfriends make
straightforward, moody, and melodic guitar rock, in a niche established by
the more stylish New York guitar bands of the past five years.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/144657-the-jealous-girlfriends-the-jealous-girlfriends
Filter Magazine :” The Girlfriends have
got something for you, and its pretty damn good”
The Tripwire: “The
Jealous Girlfriends are a Brooklyn quartet that sounds
like Mazzy Star seducing the New Pornographers. It's a mix of longing
shoegaze and perfect pop, creating a lush and wonderful pallet of wonderful
complimentary sounds...Summertime in the sun belongs to the Beach Boys, but
when the sun goes down evenings in the summer now belong to
The Jealous
Girlfriends.” http://www.thetripwire.com/reviews/2008/3/4/the-jealous-girlfriends
New York Times : The
Jealous Girlfriends, one of the best new bands in New
York, float through soft and erotic clouds of guitar and keyboards that can
turn grungy and turbulent" (Ben Sisario)
LA
Times (Buzz Band Feature): “The Jealous
Girlfriends played their first Los Angeles show on
Thursday night, and it made me, well, a bit jealous I hadn't seen the
Brooklyn quartet before.”(Kevin Bronson)
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/buzzbands/2007/11/the-jealous-gir.html
New York Magazine: " An impressive, unsigned
local quartet distinguished by its shimmering, synthy melodies and fresh
vocal sound"
Billboard:
"...the Jealous Girlfriends have
honed and refined their raw craft, a Spoon-like modern twist on guitar
rock"
L Magazine: "This is one of the
strongest voices I've ever heard live in my entire life, and I don't want
it to stop." Things got a bit more fast-paced throughout the rest of the
show, as they rolled through one hook-filled dream-pop song after another,
and Miranda never did stop singing. But she was joined by guitarist Josh
Abbot, who shares singing duties on every song and provides the invaluable
contrast that makes the band so interesting"
The Jealous Girlfriends make
it work. The Brooklyn four-piece pull together the tunefulness of Anglo New
Wave and BritPop, the aggression and energy of Washingtonian indie rock
– both district and state - and infuse it all with a little soul,
working an alchemy that transforms these base musical elements into songs
crackling with tension and excitement that are instantly memorable while
revealing something new with every listen.
Overtop a rhythmic
foundation laid down by drummer Michael Fadem, Josh Abbott and Holly
Miranda's buzzsaw guitars carom and careen against Alex Lipsen's square
wave synths as their voices duet and duel overtop in tones that are playful
and plaintive, menacing and mesmerizing. It's this potent lineup that
has crafted their eponymous album following a 2005 debut EP featuring only
Miranda and Lipsen.
The Jealous Girlfriends have already achieved a
tremendous amount for a wholly independent band, earning that blessing and
curse of being one of the best-kept secrets in independent music. Now
signed to Good Fences Records, they're set to be unleashed upon an
unsuspecting world.
Armed with hooks, barbs, and velvet-lined bludgeons,
The Jealous Girlfriends – the album –
makes a striking statement that reveals The Jealous
Girlfriends – the band - as an outfit that bends and pushes
against the boundaries of rock music not so much with the intent to break
them, but simply to see what kind of shapes they can make.
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Oct 4th - Webster Hall, NYC - Shudder To Think and
Pattern Is Movement
Following dates all with The Wedding
Present:
Oct 6th - Middle East, Cambridge
Oct 10th - North
Star, Philadelphia
Oct 11th - Black Cat, DC
Oct 12th - Local 506,
Chapel Hill
Oct 13th - Rocket Club, Asheville
Oct 14th - The
Earl, Atlanta
Oct 15th - Bottle Tree, Birmingham
Oct 17th - The
Mohawk, Austin
www.thejealousgirlfriends.net |
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