Jessamine Discography of CDs

Jessamine's second full album continued developing the spooked-out space/Krautrock inspirations of the band's debut, resulting in an attractive and most captivating trip. Cleverly and creatively, Jessamine have clear influences without obviously trying to exactly clone any of them -- motorik pace meets with tape-loop cutups, psych zoned-and-stoned flow hits up against almost goth-heavy basslines. Compared to, say, Bardo Pond's almost punishing heaviness, Jessamine demonstrates a slightly cleaner approach, not really perfectly crisp ...

Jessamine albums A most convenient and welcome compilation of the band's various singles and contributions to multi-artist albums, as well as a few extra goodies here and there, Another Fictionalized History shows that, even in short bursts, Jessamine could deliver the goods. Admittedly, some of those bursts weren't so short; a song like "Reflections," an eternally bending-upon-itself up-and-down flow of delay, flange, reverb, and every other guitar effect seemingly known to the world, takes ...

Jessamine music CDs Over a series of tuneless vocals and duets, Jessamine's debut album presents some of the most intriguing noise-pop since My Bloody Valentine and Medicine were in their heyday. From the textural noise of the opener, it might be assumed that the group pursues distortion for its own sake, though later vocal tracks "Secret," "Royal Jelly Eye Cream" and "Inevitably" each include delicious pieces of guitar distortion that accents the fragile melodies exceptionally ...

Jessamine discography The final Jessamine album proper was also a definite break from most of the band's previous work on a number of levels. Not only was it the shortest of them all, clocking in under 40 minutes spread out over seven songs, but Smithson took the lead vocals on them all, her voice sounding like a combination between the earlier psych-semi-bliss and a bit of late-night blues. Similarly, the music had a more ...

Jessamine songs Jessamine's farewell gift was actually an archival live effort from a Seattle show, the second of the group's collaborations with Pete Kember, aka Spacemen 3's Sonic Boom. Having done a split studio effort with him under the Spectrum guise, here Sonic wears his E.A.R. hat, playing everything from his favored analog keyboards to bowed cymbals and theremin. Jessamine itself concentrates on its usual instrumentation; nobody sings, and the entire performance is sequenced as seven different tracks, each presumably improvisations or newly rehearsed numbers. All are clearly part of the same overall piece, though, introduced by Sonic with his usual reverb heavy treatments and in ways dictated by him throughout. Jessamine fall somewhere between being a backing band for his explorations and being full partners, but whatever the exact nature of the partnership at any one point it's a productive one. Sonic's warm flow of textures and treatments adds a greater depth to the band's sound, replacing the silences that sometimes come to the fore with constant activity; in turn, the band's jams and slow builds give an extra rock bite to the usual E.A.R. approach. The fifth track in particular lets Ritter build up some screaming, off-center feedback noise, while Brown ...

Jessamine CD discography Track Listing of songs: Pox on You; Satellite; Radiophonic; Opus; Satellite;

Track Listing of songs: Houdini;