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Young Jesus - The Fool

The Fool Listening Party from Young Jesus

Young Jesus release show for "The Fool" in Los Angeles

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THIS IS A PREORDER ITEM. ALL ITEMS ORDERED ALONGSIDE A PHYSICAL PREORDER WILL SHIP TOGETHER ON OR BEFORE THE RELEASE DATE, MAY 24TH, 2024. YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INSTANT DOWNLOAD OF "The Weasel" AND "Brenda & Diane" UPON PURCHASE. All preorders ship with custom notebook and tarot card! LP PACKAGING NOTES: Saddle Creek Exclusive LP- Sangria marble vinyl pressed at GZ- Limited Edition of 250 (Limit 2 per customer) Standard LP- Opaque white vinyl pressed at GZ- Initial pressing of 750 (Limit 2 per customer) John Rossiter (a.k.a Young Jesus) was clearing trash out of a citrus orchard in Tarzana when he received a mysterious email from Shahzad Ismaily. i was curious to reach out to Young Jesus about Milford Graves. can you please put me in touch with them? are they still LA based? kind regards, shahzad Milford Graves was an interdisciplinary drum genius who explored connections between improvisational music, the human body, gardening, art, and science. Many years earlier, John had been asked if there were any artists he’d like to meet or collaborate with – Graves was the first name that came to mind. John had quit music to study permaculture and to work in landscapes and gardens. His last album, Shepherd Head, was too much time spent on the computer. Music had left John tired, jaded, and disconnected. Working with soil and plants gave him some life back. He said, “You know, when gardening, the right decision to make for the landscape is usually the one that is already happening. It just takes time to read what that is." So, John left the orchard to meet Shahzad (Feist, Lou Reed, Arooj Aftab) for lunch. They instantly bonded, talking about improvisation, rhythm, the heart. On a lark, Shahzad invited John to New York. When John demurred, Shahzad cooked up a scheme to have John working in his garden in between sessions. Half ruse, half invitation. Shahzad The Trickster, leading them deeper into their strange journey. They improvised whenever they were in the same town. John would work in Shahzad's garden in New York. Back at home in Los Angeles, John met with Alex Babbitt and Alex Lappin to plant fruit trees and build paths from broken concrete. After work, they'd sit at a piano and sing their hearts out. Songs started to form, songs about shame and grief, love and redemption. They came fast, a song a day for two weeks. It was different from past albums, which felt like years of hammering out lyrics and ideas. This one came in the wake of a long illness, where tunes came in a rush, as if they were physical, as if the body couldn’t heal without them. An almost involuntary outpouring, overrunning his usual self-consciousness. Rossiter had to sit and transcribe without judgment: let the ideas grow on their own. Shahzad was in LA one day when John sat down at the piano and played them for him. They decided to record them at Shahzad's Figure 8 Studios in Brooklyn – these songs would blossom into Young Jesus’ forthcoming album, The Fool. The crew grew naturally from there. Lappin and Babbitt joined them in New York. Phil Weinrobe (Adrianne Lenker, Lonnie Holley) engineered and helped produce the songs. Aaron Roche came and sang. As the week went on, everyone grew closer, talking through the deep darkness in some of these songs. Building trust and friendship. Healing a bit. Rossiter remembers recording the tune "Rich". How it started so uncomfortably. Too much shame, sadness. No connection between the musicians. But, slowly, people showed up. Lappin's great aunt and uncle. Uncle Jack asked John if he'd ever talked to a therapist and everyone burst out laughing. Shahzad's daughter. Everyone shared some food and laughed. By the end they were singing the final line of the song - "back when I was a kid" - together. Rossiter and Lappin went back to LA to finish the songs. They guided each other in the same way they built those broken concrete paths in the garden - sometimes using a sledgehammer, sometimes using their bare hands. Shahzad and Daniel Littleton (of IDA) happened to be in LA, and they came together to do a couple takes of "Rabbit" with Pete Min at Lucy's Meat Market. It was deeply connected music and they left the session laughing. Phil Weinrobe and Phil Hartunian (Westerman, Florist) mixed the record, former Young Jesus drummer Kern Haug mastered it. Inner landscaping requires presence and bravery. It can get pretty dark and strange the deeper you walk into that jungle. And it’s from the absolute pits of that inner landscape that the truest music rises from. At the end of the last session, Rossiter and Lappin sat down and drew tarot cards. John drew The Fool. Release Date: May 24th, 2024 TRACK LIST1. Brenda & Diane2. Two Brothers3. Rabbit4. Rich5. Moonlight6. MOTY7. The Weasel8. Am I the Only One9. Sunrise10. Dancer11. God's Plan

The Fool

Land of Talk shares a remixed version of Performances lead single, "Your Beautiful Self" by Hua Li 化力! Release Date: April 16th, 2024 TRACK LIST 1. Your Beautiful Self (Hua Li 化力 remix) SPOTIFY LINK

Your Beautiful Self (Hua Li 化力 remix)

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary, The Faint brings us the Deluxe Edition of their 2014 album, Doom Abuse. This edition includes tracks from the "Evil Voices" 12" that were previously not available digitally! Deluxe Edition Release Date: April 8th, 2024Original Album Release Date: April 8th, 2014 TRACK LISTDisc One1. Help In The Head2. Mental Radio 3. Evil Voices 4. Salt My Doom 5. Animal Needs 6. Loss Of Head 7. Dress Code 8. Scapegoat 9. Your Stranger 10. Lesson From The Darkness 11. Unseen Hand12. Damage ControlDisc Two1. Evil Voices (Original 12" Version)2. This is is IS IS Pain3. Unseen Hand (Pre-Version)4. Circuit Jerk5. Skylab19796. ESP

Doom Abuse (Deluxe Edition)

John Rossiter (Young Jesus) shares another single, "Moonlight" from his upcoming record, The Fool. Accompanying it is non-album companion track entitled "Bully (live in Esmont, VA)." Rossiter offers his thoughts on "Moonlight": "When I was 20 I started writing about these characters, David and Eloise. There’s a whole Young Jesus album from about 15 years ago about them. Then they left my life and I forgot about them. Or maybe I tried to forget, to move on from them. They came back on this record– a lot of things wanted to come through that I didn’t expect on this record. Lappin recorded this one, with guitar and voice. We built some sounds around it, but it’s guided by that connection. All these songs started with me sitting down with a friend, showing them the tune on guitar or piano and singing them these stories. I played bass on this one, rare for me, but I’m glad Lappin pushed me to try it."On "Bully (live in Esmont, VA)" he adds: "Dawood, Chris, and I were driving through Virginia to play a show on our friend's farm. It was cold and Jay had dug out a few fire pits. The folks living in the house made a stew from roadkill and salad and sides for everyone. They fixed my broken glasses with a hot glue gun. On that tour, I’d sing Bully over a cassette of the piano loop playing out of my mom’s old tape player. I got up to sing and it was too cold up on the deck, so I went by the fire and sang with everyone sitting in a circle chatting. Dawood recorded it with his phone and that’s the tune." Release Date: April 4th, 2024 TRACK LIST1. Moonlight2. Bully (live in Esmont, VA) SPOTIFY LINK

Moonlight b/w Bully (live in Esmont, VA)

Young Jesus shares "Brenda & Diane" from their forthcoming album, The Fool, out May 24th, 2024. Also released is the companion track from the album sessions, "Hollywood Ending." Release Date: February 20th, 2024 TRACK LIST1. Brenda & Diane2. Hollywood Ending

Brenda & Diane b/w Hollywood Ending

Young Jesus, the project of the musician John Rossiter, shares a new single entitled "The Weasel." This follows the well-received 2022 LP Shepherd Head, a record Pitchfork described as "Young Jesus at its most personal." The new single feels like an evolution of that record's sound, sharing a stripped down instrumentation and a striking vulnerability in Rossiter's vocal performance, but where Shepherd Head created immersive soundscapes using lo-fi recordings, found sounds and scant electronics, "The Weasel" moves towards delicately arranged organic textures, creating something lush and natural-feeling from unassuming building blocks. Rossiter says of the track: "This tune is shrouded in mist for me. With Albon’s bass frequencies cloaking the song, it feels a bit like The Beatles playing at a burial. And that is what it is— an examination of what happens when we bury the darkness within ourselves. That darkness becomes the soil through which evil can flower. That being said, I feel this song came from somewhere beyond my understanding and it has a deep and ineffable power when I hear it. Like a dream." Release Date: December 5th, 2023 TRACK LIST1. The Weasel

The Weasel

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