the weather, seasons & other things ending and beginning, private conversations in public spaces, pound-shop electro, trees, food, hills, cities (mainly leeds and london).
Sounds Like
Eno, Reich, Radiohead, Kompakt, The Knife, Timbaland, Leonard Cohen, Anticon, Talk Talk, Vangelis, the anarchist pop spirit of Giorgio Moroder. And maybe one or two others.
Talk Less Say More is Jell, aka Matthew Jennings. He is a producer, a songwriter and performer. He lives on a rainy island in the North Atlantic in a city where everyone pretends to busy. Talk Less, Say More has been an active project since Jell was at school. Since then he has made music continuously, injecting it with a warm and creative experimentalism and showing contempt for genre boundaries. He used to play in an avant-metal-pop band called The Butterfly, which you may have heard of if you like avant-metal-pop and were in Leeds between 2004 and 2007. He now splits his time between Talk Less Say More, a neo-folk band called Caer Caradoc and pretending he’s busy.
The results are very arresting.[...] Tracks seven, eight and nine are gorgeous: "All Dressed Up Like Love", "Someone Else’s Summer" and "Unfledged" make it absolutely clear that this solo project has more than enough invention and surprise to demand wide attention. There's a moment in "Someone Else’s Summer", when a double guitar line spins in, where I became 100% convinced that this was an album to cherish. It's a guitar line that would have been milked for three minutes of TV advert catchiness by any other artist. Jell uses the few seconds' elation to raise the hopeful side of pleasure, and then concludes the song. And so it is throughout the album. Nothing laboured, nothing squandered, nothing outstaying its welcome.
"Pillow Talk" is another highlight. Like many of the songs it seems to be part of a brooding personal inventory. Incidents and moods and detached relationships crowd the lines. It's a lonely record, and even a little unhappy. It goes nowhere near maudlin though, and the direct liveliness of the music keeps refreshing the hope. In its closing track, "Life In Cold Blood", Go Lucky simply quivers with sensuous anticipation of the next, better moment.
word bredbin, finally got hold of your e.p. i like it sucka. though i want to heat abit more euro disco coming from your direction please. eeeeeeeeeeeeeee anyway i've put up a few new rough tunes if you'd care to take 5mins to have a listen and give me abit of feedback. muchos thanks n that x
hey dude awesome debate last night!! actually really enjoyed rambling on. Ill arm my self with knowledge next time and get back to you. real good to see you. ali x
ayup sweet cheeks!!
the sad truth is that those gypos dont have anything better to do!!!!
its how they make themselves feel better!!
bless their holey, smelly, skanky possibly cotton socks!
we are playing an unplugged acoustic gig at wus on tuesday if you're about.... nowt spesh... only a few songs but just to try somert different before we've got to do it for real in china!!
Our debut full-length album "Spectre At The Feast" is to be released by Wicked Wicked Bird Records on April 2nd and will be available for purchase from our website www.thehellsetorchestra.co.uk from then onwards. You can hear clips and see videos from the album on our MySpace page now.
To celebrate, we're holding two album launches; one at The Maze, Nottingham on Saturday 31st March and the second at Water Rats, London on Sunday 1st April. Do come along to either if you are able, they promise to be monumentous occasions.
sir jell, I will unfortunately (or fortunately ) be in Prague for that date, but hopefully this means more dates in london this year? If so let me know and I will see about putting you on in Canterbury whilst you are down south. Will you be playing with Gay Death Probe any time???
Good to see you this Xmas, keep it fresh/tasty.
