[kj] OT: Bill Corgan review with reference to KJ

[Alexander Smith]

"Spectral presence" of Killing Joke?

Corgan *WISHES*.


Alex in NYC


On Wednesday, June 29, 2005, at 09:08 PM, Michael Garcia wrote:

> I was reading the review of Bily Corgans new album (which I will not 
> be ashamed to admit has really grown on me) and the reviewer made a 
> reference to KJ toward the end. See below.
>  
> Cheers,
> MIchael
>  
> Amazon.co.uk Review
> The past is a foreign country but the new dawn alluded to by the title 
> of Billy Corgan's debut solo album TheFutureEmbrace is actually an 
> overcast day in an Eighties post-punk Britain of raincoats, chimneys, 
> riots and run-down heavy industry. That might not seem like much of a 
> surprise - Smashing Pumpkins were neither cheery, Anglophobic or much 
> given to enjoying luxurious sunny afternoon teas in thatched Devonian 
> hostelries - but while TheFutureEmbrace is very much the inverse of 
> Zwan's lighter but all-too-brief psych-pop caress, Corgan, to his 
> credit, has avoided any back-peddling to the salad days of Smashing 
> Pumpkins' biblical bombast. This is much more subtle, brittle and 
> chilly, the inner rage of yore making way for sceptical deliberation 
> and John Foxx synthetics. Corgan's admiral influences are obvious - 
> the grey wash and wintry equanimity of Bowie's Neukoln phase, the 
> phallanx of distantly shimmering flanged guitars recall The Banshees, 
> the archaic and relentlessly mechanic drum machine summons forth the 
> austerity of early Human League. The Cure's Gothfather Robert Smith 
> stoops forward for an unlikely duet on a cover of Barry Gibb's "To 
> Love Somebody" (Joy Division's "The Eternal" meets David Sylvian's 
> Japan) while Corgan's own "Sorrows (in blue)" suggests he's actually 
> more of a fan of the Bee Gees than his public may care to conceed. 
> Others may sense the spectral presence of Killing Joke (both in "DIA" 
> and in the tense, metropolitan meltdown of "Mina Loy") but while 1981 
> in England was no laughing matter TheFutureEmbrace at least allows one 
> to reminisce from an extremely safe distance. --Kevin Maidment
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Kennedy [mailto:tkennedy1999 at sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 9:40 AM
> To: michael_garcia at alamedanet.net
> Subject: Re: [kj] OT: My band - Electric Jesus
>
> good stuff, Michael!......I like "Big Wheel" the best.
>  
> I sent you a friend invite on myspace - let's do a show sometime - my 
> band's called LURID BLISS.  L8R,
>  
> Tom.
>
> michael_garcia at alamedanet.net wrote:
>
> I know I don't post very often but I put some rough mixes up of 3 songs
> from our forthcoming CD if anyone is interested in hearing what we
> sound like. We're here - http://www.myspace.com/electricjesusband
>
> I'd love some feedback - good or bad.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Michael
>
> --
> www.electric-jesus.com
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