[kj] OT: Bill Corgan review with reference to KJ

[Michael Garcia]

I was reading the review of Bily Corgans new album (which I will not be
ashamed to admit has really grown on me) and the reviewer made a reference
to KJ toward the end. See below.

Cheers,
MIchael

Amazon.co.uk Review
The past is a foreign country but the new dawn alluded to by the title of
Billy Corgan's debut solo album TheFutureEmbrace is actually an overcast day
in an Eighties post-punk Britain of raincoats, chimneys, riots and run-down
heavy industry. That might not seem like much of a surprise - Smashing
Pumpkins were neither cheery, Anglophobic or much given to enjoying
luxurious sunny afternoon teas in thatched Devonian hostelries - but while
TheFutureEmbrace is very much the inverse of Zwan's lighter but
all-too-brief psych-pop caress, Corgan, to his credit, has avoided any
back-peddling to the salad days of Smashing Pumpkins' biblical bombast. This
is much more subtle, brittle and chilly, the inner rage of yore making way
for sceptical deliberation and John Foxx synthetics. Corgan's admiral
influences are obvious - the grey wash and wintry equanimity of Bowie's
Neukoln phase, the phallanx of distantly shimmering flanged guitars recall
The Banshees, the archaic and relentlessly mechanic drum machine summons
forth the austerity of early Human League. The Cure's Gothfather Robert
Smith stoops forward for an unlikely duet on a cover of Barry Gibb's "To
Love Somebody" (Joy Division's "The Eternal" meets David Sylvian's Japan)
while Corgan's own "Sorrows (in blue)" suggests he's actually more of a fan
of the Bee Gees than his public may care to conceed. Others may sense the
spectral presence of Killing Joke (both in "DIA" and in the tense,
metropolitan meltdown of "Mina Loy") but while 1981 in England was no
laughing matter TheFutureEmbrace at least allows one to reminisce from an
extremely safe distance. --Kevin Maidment

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Thomas Kennedy [mailto:tkennedy1999 at sbcglobal.net]
  Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 9:40 AM
  To: michael_garcia at alamedanet.net
  Subject: Re: [kj] OT: My band - Electric Jesus


  good stuff, Michael!......I like "Big Wheel" the best.

  I sent you a friend invite on myspace - let's do a show sometime - my
band's called LURID BLISS.  L8R,

  Tom.

  michael_garcia at alamedanet.net wrote:
    I know I don't post very often but I put some rough mixes up of 3 songs
    from our forthcoming CD if anyone is interested in hearing what we
    sound like. We're here - http://www.myspace.com/electricjesusband

    I'd love some feedback - good or bad.

    Cheers!

    Michael

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