Jackie-O Motherfucker-Ballads Of The Revolution (2009)

Genre: Indie, Rock, Experimental, Avant-Garde, GREAT
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Tracklist

01.nightingale [05:12]
02.dark falcon [05:32]
03.skylight [08:39]
04.the corner [05:43]
05.the cryin sea [10:18]
06.a mania [04:58]

Given this Portland band's propensity towards Zabriskie Point-style delirium and, this new one kicks off pretty languid. Opening track “The Valley Of Fire” is total sun-stroked bliss with its ambient lulls and hazy melodies. It's true they've previously mined similar stoned psych, slow and super landscapey, but this quietly experimental new album flows particularly free. They build breathy and gentle rock with folk structures and free improvisation, heavy on the desert valley imagery and nocturnal feelings. The blood of these sprawled jams is heavy with a reminiscence of vague and vast American rock lineage, and even if their approach to their history is oblique, they fit right in to a wider West Coast lineage, its extensive mythos glinting bright and permanently in their eyes. Ballad Of The Revolution rolls pretty gradually for the first few before breaking deeper into more Midwestern evocations. with Honey Owens' (who makes solo Pacific Midwestern dreams as Valet and plays bass for Atlas Sound) signature imagestic guitar refracting off more organic dusty guitars on “Lost Jimmy Walen”, part Lynch lament with Willie Nelson a din in the distance. Through these liquidy passages, JOMF are always searching for an indelible humanness. It's this massive spirit that provides particular resonance to these beautiful and weird ballads.

July, 8 2009 08:00 PM - Star & Shadow Cinema
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July, 9 2009 08:00 PM - Islington Mill
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July, 10 2009 08:00 PM - CAFE OTO
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July, 11 2009 08:00 PM - The Hague
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July, 12 2009 08:00 PM - NBI
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July, 13 2009 08:00 PM - Kulturbunker
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July, 14 2009 08:00 PM - M14 DE DUISBURG | Steinbruch
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July, 15 2009 08:00 PM - Rhiz
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