LISTEN TO OUR LIVE SET ON VPRO AMSTERDAM FROM MARCH 2009 HERE, PRETTY MUCH ALL NEW MATERIAL
NOW:7" EP on Milsetone / Nervous Jerk, released June 2007, sold out. May be available through stores or online, otherwise no-go-zone.
NOW: 12" LP, 7 tracks, 25 mins, out through Siltbreeze Records with CD version being released in Australia through Nervous Jerk.
NEW ALBUM; "FABULOUS DIAMONDS II" by FABULOUS DIAMONDS, HAS FINISHED BEING RECORDED/MIXED. JUST HAS TO BE MASTERED AND THE PAINTING FOR THE FRONT COVER COMPLETED.
Contact us: fabulousdiamonds@hotmail.com
Review of our new album from Rave Magazine
Fabulous Diamonds are difficult to review. On one hand I’m enamoured of their music-as-art, sonic impressionism – Jarrod Zlatic’s echoing electric organ and alto saxophone are gorgeous as they dawdle along the stark aural panorama, while Nisa Venerosa’s drums are heavy and steady without groove. On the other I find them a little stagnant, as though the Melbourne duo are no more than the sum of their parts. 7 Songs – for instance – is a lush example of DIY production (by My Disco’s Ben Andrews no less), heavily layered and delayed with underground precision. Yet the operational definition of the record is – as the name suggests – seven untitled tracks taken from the band’s 2007 performance repertoire, and the lack of concept is irksome. For despite the post-punk-era hallmarks of dilettantism and avoidance of rock & roll, the music doesn’t appear to be saying anything – the pair’s quaintly chiming vocals are minimal and repetitive. Perhaps that’s part of subverting mainstream culture – which is obsessed with ostensibly meaning something – but beauty for beauty’s sake seems too close to popular culture’s vacuous beginnings to be a conscious statement. What it leaves handsome, arrhythmic, cerebral music that barely engages the mind, let alone challenges it. The record still stands as clever work of exotic ear candy (which you should listen to), but it’s not subculture affirming. The tragedy is, it could have been.
JAKEB SMITH
"As I arrvied at Scala, a venue with multiple levels and a capacity of a thousand, Australia's Fabulous Diamonds were finishing up their opening set. The duo's robotic drumming and obscure organ/synthesizer provided more background noise than anything engaging." From www.soundproofmagazine.com
"we caught what we could of Fabulous Diamonds until we rather admittedly became quite nonplussed with their repetitive drone, which I'm guessing wasn't quite so ideal an opening act for the kind of crazy party that Gregg Gillis, AKA Girl Talk " from http://www.last.fm/music/R%C3%B6yksopp/_/The+Girl+and+the+Robot/+journal
Mind bogglingly excellent set at the Workers Club yesterday. Can't wait for the next album with that mammoth, Terry Riley-esque 12-minute opus you played last. Looking forward to your Akron/Family show. matt x
Hey you fabulous diamonds! We are coming down and have a show booked with El Johero! Not sure on the date yet, wondering if you would like to play? We're hoping to organize it with super 8mm films projecting on all the walls! Should be a great night!
Hey, Couldnt find you after you played last night, but you guys were amazing.When you play with Deerhunter, can you tell them to also come to Perth.Or maybe we'll just up and go to Melbourne, we did for ATP. Anyway complete Radness and come back when you can.
