Nite Jewel - Liquid Cool album flac

For Nite Jewel’s Ramona Gonzalez, her disillusioning run came not from Sony or Warner Music or any of their many wholly owned subsidiaries, but from the indie hub Secretly Canadian-hardly the kind of greedy corporate fat cats you picture artists duct-tapping their mouths in protest over. As Gonzalez tells it, though, Secretly Canadian pushed her in a pop direction she was never quite comfortable with for Nite Jewel’s 2012 One Second of Love, forcing collaborators on her and pressuring her to cede the very control she built her career around. Liquid Cool’s backstory makes it hard not to root for the album. How inspiring would it be if, newly emancipated from her overbearing label, Gonzalez went on to record her Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, a triumph that proves how musicians are better when left to chase their own muses? Gonzalez never sets her sights that high, though.

Album · 2016 · 9 Songs. Liquid Cool Nite Jewel. Listen on Apple Music.

Nothing But Scenery, 03:20. Was That a Sign, 03:52. Kiss the Screen, 03:30. Over the Weekend, 03:28.

As she proved on her previous album, Gonzalez can deliver irresistible hooks as often as her contemporaries when she wants to, and Liquid Cool boasts some of her freest-sounding pop songs yet. "Kiss the Screen" and "Boo Hoo" are shimmery fantasies of longing and disconnection, and while it's tempting to imagine what they'd sound like with more deluxe production values, the slight amount of sparkle Gonzalez gives them is arguably more effective than full-on glitz.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. For her first album in four years, Los Angeles artist and producer Ramona Gonzalez pared down her sound to its bedroom-disco essence. Drawing on the vibe of contemporary R&B, vintage synth pop, and underground beat music, her new album, "Liquid Cool," brims with anthemic hooks but offers them with relaxed ambivalence.

I'm very happy Nite Jewel returned to dreamy lo-fi pop for Liquid Cool. One person found this helpful.