blah bloc party blah snow patrol blah vega4 blah the editors blah u2.
in case you weren’t aware, the man known as jacknife lee has been busy producing quite a few well known bands in recent times but to be honest, that part of the world interests me not.
now jacknife lee steps out of the shadows, once again and drops his music onto the release schedule for all the world to hear.
however, as my own personal experience confirms, the man never plays the machine of the music industry via normal routes, and i suspect that ever since he was part of the punked up excellence of the commercially rejected but brilliant, compulsion, never has.
in fact one of my most esteemed pieces of electronic ones and zeros happens to be an email response i received from jacknife lee a year ago basically telling me to fuck off (in gloriously delicate and well worded form i should add) following a few ‘hows about an interview’ emails.
so to help promote the twanged up electronic throbbing excellence that has that same type of rock-n-dance groove that depeche mode once were the masters of, here’s the press release for the new single direct from the man himself. the package includes remixes by other fellow producer to the stars, paul epworth under his phones nom de plume, who gives the tongue in cheek content a hard edged techno makeover that will drive the indie discos psychotic, whereas switch retains some of the melody and rock noise, with a few subtle dancefloor twists.
oh, and another interesting little fact for you.
under all the usual legal gubbins the promo has the following phrase : elo on ice.
let’s hope we find out a little more as to what all means, though i think it’s safe to say, i am not going to ask him !
the press release :
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fiction asked me to come up with a press release for my record.
i don’t want to say anything about it.
i don’t see why its necessary.
you’ll listen (or not), and if you need facts/fiction to reinforce an opinion you can google/wikipedia it up.
i’ve never been impressed enough by a press release ro get excited before i hear a record.
there’s a tendency now to explain and expose everything that i dont like, so i’m not doing it.
musicians and artists are rarely interesting when talking about their own work and music journalism is not at its grandest peak.
i prefer the blog, upload, download, like, dislike.
jacknife lee
“the record is coming out on fiction in august.
more detail : here