Kind words from verbicide about Dwight Smith:
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Another excellent podcast from bows, with Electric Jellyfish batting clean-up.
BOAWS Podcast: Episode #14
01 – No Anchor – Pussyfootin’
02 – Ty Segall – It’s a Problem
03 – Dear Eloise – Song for Him
04 – Electric Jellyfish – Nothing
05 – German Shepherd – Empire
06 – Oh Condor – Tidal Waves Goodbye
07 – The Men – Open Your Heart
08 – Opium Taylor – Aquaman
09 – Panzram – Maintenance
10 – Ashrae Fax – Dynamite Dust
11 – Kam Kama – The Living
12 – Vacuum – Walking Slow
13 - Window Liquor – Sympathy For…
14 – Two Inch Astronaut – Tree Ate My House
15 – Grass is Green – Slow Machine
16 – Glorium – There’s a Strain
17 – Keith Canisius – Where Did You Go All These Years
18 – Woollen Kits – Watch You Walk
19 – Sun of Eyes – Cloud Judgement
A really nice review of Dwight Smith’s “Plumed Serpent” from Verbicide Magazine.
We’re really proud and excited to announce the release of a new cassette from Australia’s Electric Jellyfish. Recorded in a two-day session in Melbourne’s inner north suburbs in between shows on their 2011 Australian tour, “Trouble Coming Down” features the band’s most compelling work to date. Raw, elemental, and filled with post-punk fury, these tunes channel Leadbelly, the Jesus Lizard, and Joy Division all at once through their singular, grunged-out blend of Gothic folk and blues punk. Grab it here.
ELECTRIC JELLYFISH TOUR THE US IN SUPPORT OF A NEW CASSETTE
We’re really proud and excited to announce the release of a new cassette from Australia’s Electric Jellyfish. Recorded in a two-day session in Melbourne’s inner north suburbs in between shows on their 2011 Australian tour, “Trouble Coming Down” features the band’s most compelling work to date. Raw, elemental, and filled with post-punk fury, these tunes channel Leadbelly, the Jesus Lizard, and Joy Division all at once through their singular grunged-out blues inversion. It won’t see its official release until March 1, 2012 as a limited edition cassette (100) and download on Twin Lakes Records, but in the meantime, you can listen here.
Electric Jellyfish will be spending all of March and early April touring the US in support of these new tunes, including SXSW appearances and shows with Aussie legends feedtime, The Wedding Present, Spectre Folk, Tall Firs, Hank IV, Golden Boys, MYTY KONKEROR, and Carlton Melton. We are in the process of finalizing the last few dates, but a more detailed tour schedule is coming soon.
Introducing…Dwight Smith
Today we’re proud to introduce Dwight Smith and his musical vision to the world with the release of his debut offering—a virtual 7-inch titled Plumed Serpent. We were blown away the first time we heard the demos he sent us, and Twin Lakes co-founder Steubs articulates just why…
Plumed Serpent. Dwight Smith.
Our bodies are driven to sustain and reproduce without worries of a greater meaning. It’s no wonder that our minds and hearts are similarly driven forward to understand and create, all the while vexed by how the facts of the physical world may or may not add up to very much at all. Our faculties might just make us tragic because they allow us to dream of and define beauty, completeness and peace that seemingly can’t exist in our physical world.But what is more hopeful than filling a void with ringing voices? What better answer can we give monstrous solipsism than to write of what we see and feel so that others will understand? Dwight Smith seems to be heeding this call when he gives us two sad, hopeful, and gorgeous songs that pull us through these questions, pull us into him, and push us up and out to a place of shared fragile exhilaration. In each song, Smith pulls us behind his minor chords and harmonies towards what will certainly be a maelstrom and wreck but instead drops us gently each time into glorious but sadly complex resolution. The questions, maybe the void too, are still there, but we feel different about them — a little lighter, a little tired, happy to be on the positive side of materiality, and slightly sympathetic to the necessary negative.
When Smith sings that ‘everyone wants to talk like they know something/I don’t know anything’ it’s not a statement of defeat, but a declaration dripping with breathless epistemological glee. It’s Buddha smiling from the front of a runaway train. It’s Icarus realizing his glory will actually be his fall. When he sings later on about the need for forgiveness or about our own falls, the songs ring out, resonate and amplify an out-sized hope and love for the world and humanity There’s an angel living in this music, or somewhere in Dwight Smith.
Plumed Serpent is now available for download on a pay-what-you-want basis over at Dwight’s Bandcamp page where you can also purchase a hand-made origami-style CD-R that includes two bonus tracks recorded live at a recent performance.
