Indian Jewelry
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Indian Jewelry is a van gang from Houston, Texas. I to the J. Blood on the streets.
TOTALED is their latest record, and their third album for We Are Free/Monitor Records.
TOTALED is weird, dirty and to the point, a direct line to the one true Indian Jewelry under Heaven.
No genre, no rules, no help.
IJ hasn’t turned away from cracked cymbals, feedback, and burning amps. They’re running them through more fx.
Erika Thrasher and Tex Kerschen wrote and recorded the record in 2009 in Houston and Los Angeles. TOTALED is the sum of hundreds of shows on the road and hundreds of hours under headphones. The songs were developed with Richard Durham, Mary Sharpe, and Rodney Rodriguez.
TOTALED is a crash course in sound + vision. In it is the swamp electro of 2003s We Are The Wild Beast, the nightmare throb of 2005s Invasive Exotics, and the sonic angel dream of 2008s Free Gold. This is an encounter with the true and the truly fucked up woozy and heartpounding and subject to double-vision.
It’s like arriving to the beach, headspun and weightless after a sleepless night, only to remember that a hurricane has come and wiped almost everything away. Hard grass crawls back over the improvised dunes, a few men fish in the surf, and Tejano music plays from the speakers of a parked pick-up.
If you’re hearing funk, that’s because they spend their time at home playing in Houston’s Prince cover band Diamonds+Pearls.
If you're hearing anything else, that’s the sound of Houston underwater.
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TOTALED is their latest record, and their third album for We Are Free/Monitor Records.
TOTALED is weird, dirty and to the point, a direct line to the one true Indian Jewelry under Heaven.
No genre, no rules, no help.
IJ hasn’t turned away from cracked cymbals, feedback, and burning amps. They’re running them through more fx.
Erika Thrasher and Tex Kerschen wrote and recorded the record in 2009 in Houston and Los Angeles. TOTALED is the sum of hundreds of shows on the road and hundreds of hours under headphones. The songs were developed with Richard Durham, Mary Sharpe, and Rodney Rodriguez.
TOTALED is a crash course in sound + vision. In it is the swamp electro of 2003s We Are The Wild Beast, the nightmare throb of 2005s Invasive Exotics, and the sonic angel dream of 2008s Free Gold. This is an encounter with the true and the truly fucked up woozy and heartpounding and subject to double-vision.
It’s like arriving to the beach, headspun and weightless after a sleepless night, only to remember that a hurricane has come and wiped almost everything away. Hard grass crawls back over the improvised dunes, a few men fish in the surf, and Tejano music plays from the speakers of a parked pick-up.
If you’re hearing funk, that’s because they spend their time at home playing in Houston’s Prince cover band Diamonds+Pearls.
If you're hearing anything else, that’s the sound of Houston underwater.