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JENNIFER GENTLE

Valende - SP658

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Hailing from Padova, Italy, Jennifer Gentle is not a girl. Jennifer Gentle is, in fact, a band made up of singer/guitarist Marco Fasolo and drummer Alessio Gastaldello (joined by various accomplices when they play live). Valende is their third full-length, and first for Sub Pop (their first two albums, I Am You Are and Funny Creatures Lane were released individually on Italy’s Sillyboy Entertainment, and together as a double CD under the name Ectoplasmic Garden Party by Australia’s Lexicon Devil label). The record was, like its predecessors, home-recorded by Marco and Alessio and it’s a psych pop charmer, drawing on the band’s own brand of musical dementia: an almost impossible-to-describe melting pot of whacked experimentation, deep fried eccentricity and acoustic beauty, drawing judiciously on the band’s long-term fascination with Syd Barrett, 13th Floor Elevators, and Joe Meek production techniques. Jennifer Gentle is also the first Italian band Sub Pop has ever signed (such is our deep affection for the band). But, again, Jennifer Gentle is not a girl.

Released: 2005-01-25 (CD), 2005-01-25 (LP)

CD - $12

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MP3S - $9.90

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TRACKS

  1. UNIVERSAL DAUGHTER
  2. I DO DREAM YOU
  3. TINY HOLES
  4. CIRCLES OF SORROW
  5. THE GARDEN (PART ONE)
  6. HESSESOPOA
  7. THE GARDEN (PART TWO)
  8. GOLDEN DRAWINGS
  9. LIQUID COFFEE
  10. NOTHING MAKES SENSE

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