| Jaye Jayle |
House Cricks and Other Excuses to Get Out |
Jaye Jayle — House Cricks and Other Excuses to Get Out
♠ Jaye Jayle opened the evening with their Nick Cave~esque rock. Mining their recently release of House Cricks and Other Excuses to Get Out, Jaye Jayle welcomed Philly to a dark, enticing rock universe. And for their finale, the females of Freakwater joined the fray for some harmonizing counterpoint.
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Album release: October 2016
Record Label: Sargent House
Duration: 41:38
Tracks:
1. Hanging Mirror 5:49
2. House Cricks 4:47
3. The Beast Keeps Cool 4:37
4. Sugar Ran Wild 5:17
5. Sculpting 2:06
6. Heaven is Cold 5:30
7. Miss Paranoia 4:19
8. Two~Headed Crow 4:40
9. Pull Me Back to Hell 4:34
Credits:
♠ Vocals and Guitar by Evan Patterson.
♠ Synthesizers and Vocals by Jonathan Glen Wood.
♠ Bass Guitar by Todd Cook.
♠ Drums and Cymbals by Neal Argabright.
Additional Instrumentation:
♠ 2, 3, 4, 6, & 9 Electric Guitar by Matt Fox. 6 Violin by Anna Kripenstapel. 3 ♠ Percussion by Tim Barnes.
Recording and Mixing:
♠ 2, 3, 4, 6, & 9 Recorded by Kevin Ratterman at La La Land.
♠ 2, 3, 4, 6, & 9 Overdub Recordings and 3, 4, & 9 Mixed by Warren Gray at Graywaters Recordings.
♠ 2 & 6 Mixed by Dean Hurley at Asymmetrical Studio.
♠ 1, 5, 7, & 8 Recorded and Mixed by Jim Marlowe at Dracula’s Casino.
♠ Mastered by Carl Saff and Saff Mastering.
About album:
♠ “Anyone who is using more than two chords is just showing off.”
♠ Woodie Guthrie’s famous quote became a mantra for young musicians who rallied around folk’s austerity, and later inspired a new generation of artists who basked in punk’s primitivism. Guthrie’s songs may not be an influence on Louisville’s Jaye Jayle, but his call for simplicity as a deliberate choice versus a matter of mere ability resonated with the veterans of Kentucky’s dark indie scene. Naming themselves Jaye Jayle as a pen name or a pseudonym to veer away from a traditional band moniker, the group sought to eliminate unnecessary variables and deconstruct their compositions down to their most concentrated essence. Jaye Jayle owe less to our nation’s roots music and more to peripheral rock bands that have taken the “less is more” attitude to its furthest reaches. Imagine Spacemen 3 without the saturated wall of distortion, or Neu! without the upbeat motorik pulse, or Lungfish without the shamanistic howls. But these reference points seem either too bombastic or too lush. Perhaps a nexus of The Troggs’ ham~fisted drumming, Angels of Light’s ominous twang, and Suicide’s swaths of negative space hits closer to the mark, but even that doesn’t do the band justice. Jaye Jayle’s debut album House Cricks and Other Excuses To Get Out is an exercise in tension and restraint, a tightrope act between singer~songwriter traditions and art rock experimentation, and an intersection of Southern cultural permutations and otherworldly sounds.
♠ “About three years ago I started to write House Cricks. I didn’t know I was writing an album. Twenty~seven songs and a few years later... Here is nine very focused excuses to make an album.” — Jaye Jayle
Bandcamp: https://jayejayle.bandcamp.com/album/house-cricks-and-other-excuses-to-get-out
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/jayejayle/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jayejayle
Label: https://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle
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| Jaye Jayle |
House Cricks and Other Excuses to Get Out |
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Album release: October 2016
Record Label: Sargent House
Duration: 41:38
Tracks:
1. Hanging Mirror 5:49
2. House Cricks 4:47
3. The Beast Keeps Cool 4:37
4. Sugar Ran Wild 5:17
5. Sculpting 2:06
6. Heaven is Cold 5:30
7. Miss Paranoia 4:19
8. Two~Headed Crow 4:40
9. Pull Me Back to Hell 4:34
Credits:
♠ Vocals and Guitar by Evan Patterson.
♠ Synthesizers and Vocals by Jonathan Glen Wood.
♠ Bass Guitar by Todd Cook.
♠ Drums and Cymbals by Neal Argabright.
Additional Instrumentation:
♠ 2, 3, 4, 6, & 9 Electric Guitar by Matt Fox. 6 Violin by Anna Kripenstapel. 3 ♠ Percussion by Tim Barnes.
Recording and Mixing:
♠ 2, 3, 4, 6, & 9 Recorded by Kevin Ratterman at La La Land.
♠ 2, 3, 4, 6, & 9 Overdub Recordings and 3, 4, & 9 Mixed by Warren Gray at Graywaters Recordings.
♠ 2 & 6 Mixed by Dean Hurley at Asymmetrical Studio.
♠ 1, 5, 7, & 8 Recorded and Mixed by Jim Marlowe at Dracula’s Casino.
♠ Mastered by Carl Saff and Saff Mastering.
About album:
♠ “Anyone who is using more than two chords is just showing off.”
♠ Woodie Guthrie’s famous quote became a mantra for young musicians who rallied around folk’s austerity, and later inspired a new generation of artists who basked in punk’s primitivism. Guthrie’s songs may not be an influence on Louisville’s Jaye Jayle, but his call for simplicity as a deliberate choice versus a matter of mere ability resonated with the veterans of Kentucky’s dark indie scene. Naming themselves Jaye Jayle as a pen name or a pseudonym to veer away from a traditional band moniker, the group sought to eliminate unnecessary variables and deconstruct their compositions down to their most concentrated essence. Jaye Jayle owe less to our nation’s roots music and more to peripheral rock bands that have taken the “less is more” attitude to its furthest reaches. Imagine Spacemen 3 without the saturated wall of distortion, or Neu! without the upbeat motorik pulse, or Lungfish without the shamanistic howls. But these reference points seem either too bombastic or too lush. Perhaps a nexus of The Troggs’ ham~fisted drumming, Angels of Light’s ominous twang, and Suicide’s swaths of negative space hits closer to the mark, but even that doesn’t do the band justice. Jaye Jayle’s debut album House Cricks and Other Excuses To Get Out is an exercise in tension and restraint, a tightrope act between singer~songwriter traditions and art rock experimentation, and an intersection of Southern cultural permutations and otherworldly sounds.
♠ “About three years ago I started to write House Cricks. I didn’t know I was writing an album. Twenty~seven songs and a few years later... Here is nine very focused excuses to make an album.” — Jaye Jayle
Bandcamp: https://jayejayle.bandcamp.com/album/house-cricks-and-other-excuses-to-get-out
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/jayejayle/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jayejayle
Label: https://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle
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