The Jezabels don't actually write their name with an exclamation point, but that's how I say their name in my head every time I think about them, because every I think about them, I get excited. The Jezabels!
Their music has that effect on me.
Hailing from down under (not the down under I'm from, but the other one -- I don't hold that against them, though), the Jezabels started out when band members Heather, Hayley, Nik and Sam met at Sydney University.
As far as I can make out, the band is not signed to a label yet. But it can't be that far away, though, surely? Since they are, quite simply and as Sia would say, magicpants.
I love the messy chaos of their music. In an odd way, they remind me of Sleater Kinney or Montreal's Land of Talk. At first it's like just so much noise (maybe even a little off-key?) but soon their songs needle their way under your skin like a tick, until you're destabilized and feverish with the need to listen to them over and over again.
There are all these separate elements in their music that shouldn't work, but do. There'll be a discordant piano refrain or a meandering baseline that you feel certain will tip the song over into irritating, empty noise doodling. But somehow all the parts coalesce into something not only cohesive, but packing a hefty emotional punch.
I don't know how they do this. But I like it. Very much.
[Jezabels - MySpace]
1 comments:
Wow, you summed their music up perfectly! I have not stopped listening to them since i heard "Disco Biscuit Love". I was into such a different genre of music at the time but was so strangely fascinated that i soon bought their 1st EP. (I bough both subsequent EP's on pre-order.)
I could never find the words to describe how i felt about this music, so, thank you.
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