#jeanines

5/8/26.

I learned a couple of weeks ago that Love, Burns - Phil Sutton's full-time band now that Pale Lights has been retired - is set to release their 3rd full length album in May 29th via Spinout Nugget Records (UK), and Jigsaw Records (US). Currently, only one song is available, but the band has apparently also re-recorded "Dear Carol" which was released on 7" last year.

Sutton (Brooklyn, New York) is kind of a big deal. Did you know he is a librarian at the New York Public Library? It's kind of funny to think that for most people that IS what he is known for. But after a lifetime in the music industry, he can get some real indie heavyweights to work with him as evidenced by his band and guests on "Pavement Drawings": Kyle Forrester (Crystal Stilts), Hannes Muller (The BVs), Jo Roman, Alicia Hyman (Jeanines), Gary Olson (Ladybug Transistor), Jed Smith (My Teenage Stride, Jeanines, Mick Trouble, Creative Writing).

“The world can’t bring you down” sostengono, con un certo tono incoraggiante, The Crabs nella canzone che apre la scaletta di questa sera. Ho qualche dubbio che sia così semplice, ma in ogni caso c’è qualcosa che il mondo non ci potrà togliere, ovvero i prossimi sessanta minuti pieni di belle novità indiepop e indie rock, senza tralasciare i necessari brindisi, nella nuova puntata del

podcast di “Memoria polaroid – un blog alla radio”, la trasmissione in onda ogni settimana in diretta da Bologna, sulle frequenze di NEU Radio, a cura di Enzo Baruffaldi. Questa è la playlist della serata:

Bridge Dog – Standard Issue Galore – Field Trip The Wind-Ups – (That’s Just My) Dream Girl Pearly* – Hit The Ground Beside You Steven Lipsticks and His Magic Band – Comedy The Slow Summits – Dream On Bourgeois – Mattias Waving Blue – Jackie Hidden Eyes – Piranha Dancer – Just Say Yes The Beach Boys – God Only Knows

-> https://linktr.ee/polaroidblogpodcast

Creative Writing is a quartet of Western Mass regulars attuned to the fuzzy frequencies of NZ and American lo-fi. Three out of four of the principals — Patrick Battleship, Jeffrey Morkeski, Wes Nelson — came from similarly-minded Luxor Rentals, while the drummer, Jed Smith, makes his way from the Jeanines and, before that, My Teenage Stride (a band that could sound almost as much like the Bats as the actual Bats during a brief but intoxicating aughts run). They’re well-connected locally, so if you live anywhere near the Pioneer Valley, you’ve likely seen them supporting quality national acts and, really, holding their own. Nothing’s getting reinvented here, but if you like tuneful, melodic distortion, catchy choruses and slacker joie de vivre, you’ll enjoy Creative Writing.

Omega Radio for September 19, 2019; #209.

Illuminati Hotties “I Wanna’ Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)”

Ramonda Hammer “Everlasting Love”

First Aid Kit “Random Rules”

Pile “Firewood”

FCKR Jr. “The Pain And Sleep Department”

Blonde Tongues “Hey Good Lookin’

Chastity Belt “Ann’s Jam”

Thurston Moore “Leave Me Alone”

My Brightest Diamond “Quiet Loud”

N0V3L “To Whom It May Concern”

Stonefield “Dog Eat Dog”

Free Time “Esoteric Tizz”

Kendra Amalie “Breathe Underwater”

Pure Bathing Culture “All Night”

Tempers “Eyes Wide Wider”

Temples “You’re Either On Something”

Lower Dens “Young Republicans”

Preoccupations “Pontiac ‘87″

Girl Friday “Decoration, Currency”

Jeanines “Is It Real”

Mermaidens “I Might Disappear”

Lunch Lady “Sweet One”

Kissing Party “A Little Star”

Victoriana, The “An Angel, Ephemeral”

Death Bells “Nothing Changes”

Dude York “Falling”

Silversun Pickups “It Doesn’t Matter Why”

Water From Your Eyes “Bad In The Sun”

Released - Mar 6th 2020

Highest UK chart position - Did not chart

Spotify streams to date - 11,721 (Been In the Dark)

First heard - On release, 2020 

This feels like a fitting place to end up. If I’m honest, I don’t love indiepop like I used to. I’m not expecting it to do anything new, but looking at the latest round of artists, I do expect them to give something of themselves and that seems to be in increasingly short supply. Instead, we get Xeroxed bands to go with their Xeroxed haircuts and old Sarah fanzines and I have to admit that I’m bored. Jeanines are one of the exceptions. Are they original? Hell no! (don’t ask me that!) But I like the sense of Alicia that I get in their songs: nervous and brittle, but with a simple, sad honesty that cuts thru the most complicated of emotions. I like that they cut back to the 60s on a slightly busier route too: we have the usual Be My Baby drumbeats and gentle chamberpop here but there’s a folksy vibe too, with tambourines and briskly strummed acoustics adding some life to the mix.

There are some great and touching moments across the whole EP, especially Alicia’s painful observation that “I like you less and less and less and less and less” on the eerie Less and Less. But mainly this pick is about two songs: “Been In the Dark” covers a domestic breakdown in relations while coming on like a breezier Belle And Sebastian, all bustling energy and bittersweet strings. The melody soars and swoops wonderfully and its combination of winsome charm and dour, downbeat lyrics creates the kind of emotional contrast that great indiepop thrives off. I had this one to close out my Uncool 50 playlist because it seemed like the right note to finish on: as Alicia so rightly points out, we have indeed “been in the light, been in the dark’.

Omega Radio for April 9th, 2022; #303.

Still Corners: “The Trip”

Jeanines: “You Were Mine”

Peel Dream Magazine: “Up And Up”

Long Beard: “Sweetheart”

Crumb: “M.R.”

Shower Curtain: “All That U Do”

Corey Flood: “Down The Hill”

Fawns Of Love: “Horoscope”

Gentle Heat: “In Between”

Julia Shapiro: “Shape”

Citrus Clouds: “Whoa”

Young Prisms: “Feel Fine”

Dummy: “Slacker Mask”

Soft Blue Shimmer: “Coca-Cola Abyss”

Deeper In: “Sicayda”

Trillion: “Sure”

Chrome Waves: “Aspiring Death”

Poppy Jean Crawford: “Same Old Tricks”

Criminal World: “Mox Jet”

Youngest: “Slow Fade”

Slow Crush: “Hush”

Kestrels: “Octavio”

Nadja: “Starres”

Gemma Ray: “Acta Non Verba”

Wand: “Airplane”

Mr. Elevator: “Brobdingag”

Still Corners: "The Trip" Jeanines: "You Were Mine" Peel Dream Magazine: "Up And Up" Long Beard: "Sweetheart" Crumb: "M.R." Shower Curtain: "All That U Do" Corey Flood: "Down The Hill" Fawns Of Love: "Horoscope" Gentle Heat: "In Between" Julia Shapiro: "Shape" Citrus Clouds: "Whoa" Young Prisms: "Feel Fine" Dummy: "Slacker Mask" Soft Blue Shimmer: "Coca-Cola Abyss" Deeper In: "Sicayda" Trillion: "Sure" Chrome Waves: "Aspiring Death" Poppy Jean Crawford: "Same Old Tricks" Criminal World: "Mox Jet" Youngest: "Slow Fade" Slow Crush: "Hush" Kestrels: "Octavio" Nadja: "Starres" Gemma Ray: "Acta Non Verba" Wand: "Airplane" Mr. Elevator: "Brobdingag"

Warmer temperatures are now here and so is our latest broadcast. Shoegaze has been mostly absent on Omega Radio save for one deluxe summer broadcast, and this week it finally returns. Two hours of new, current, and recent ear-splitting sounds from the world of shoegaze, dream-pop, alternative, and jangle to supplement the soundtrack for white April sunshine, green grass, blue skies, cotton clouds and rainbows.

No shortage of sounds to be found on Omega and we have no plans on stopping. See you in two weeks.

April 23, 2022 (10PM New York City): deluxe Omega