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

[rob]

Got shite reviews over here but below looks much more positive..

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Michael Garcia
Sent: 30 June 2005 02:09
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: [kj] OT: Bill Corgan review with reference to KJ

 

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
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/artist-search/Billy%20Corgan/026-414877
3-3524446>  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
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/artist-search/Smashing%20Pumpkins/026-4
148773-3524446>  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
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/artist-search/Zwan/026-4148773-3524446>
'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

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