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The acclaimed debut album from California’s Nite Jewel - ‘Good Evening’ - is released today through No Pain In Pop. The free launch show is on October 3rd at London’s Cargo, and is the final date in her upcoming European tour.

Buy the release direct for £7 here.

“Like the phrase ‘Nite Jewel’ itself, Good Evening is minuscule and precious…”
Pitchfork



MP3: Nite Jewel - Weak For Me

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@DazedDigital

No Pain In Pop playlist up now at Dazed Digital. Details below, thanks to them for their kind words.

Old Blood - I Win
Arch M - Cat Grave
Night Control - Good Looks
Little Dragon - After the Rain (Floating Points Remix)
The Mayfair Set - Already Warm
The Samps - Magnetic Thys
A Grave With No Name - And We Parted Ways at Mt Jade
Sunni-Geini - SG Main Theme
Nite Jewel - Chimera
Banjo or Freakout - Archangel (Burial Cover)

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2OO8 ≠ 32

Photo: Tom King

It’s hard not to feel berk or beast when attempting to cram 12 months into 700 words, so we won’t even try. This late in the day there’s going to be omission to an extent that outstretches the impatient collateral of memory loss, especially as the mind wanders back to recall a year of live music that’s without peer in my 23 on this earth.

So, there’ll be no divvying up of 2008 between movements and moods here. Just a necessary trawl through the shipwreck, flotsam fished from choppy waters and beacon buoys twinkling in the ocean of our terrible collective memory.

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Nite Glide

Original photo: Travis Peterson

In search of totems and musical Troma, Nite Jewel glides sublime, for now at least, on b-movie synths and bass creeps, cruising city unerred and damp with the falling. Serene and rudderless: Ramona, friend of Ariel’s, conscript for Simonetti, blending with the hoods and their prowl glower, the gutter-strewn and the giddynaughts, ‘Chimera’s a liquefied monument, cherubs and gargoyles pimples fleeing the same marble skin.

MP3: Nite Jewel - Chimera

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