Seoul :: Mundane

Well, my life as of late has been kind of restricted, since I live in the mentality of strictly family and no friends. So I'll be posting much of what I get to observe and know via internet.
Folks from Paris has this small magazine called, Entrisme and one of the articles on their blog features, Jay Retard(i like his music). I'm posting the translated version of the article, so there may be a bit of glitch in the expression, and if you cannot take it in, then ask/fight/piss off Google Translate.

E N T R I S M E :: If you can read French :)

It seems that Jay Reatard is an asshole in real life. Steals clothing for people who host and treated everyone like crap, including the musicians.
But we do not care. It makes beautiful songs.
Previously, Jay was playing in the Reatards, this group of garage punk lo-fi where everyone wears the same name: Steve Reatard, Elvis ... Reatard like Ramones.But Reatards were not great songs.
With the Lost Sounds, his next group, we feel that Jay begins to find its way. Gone is the rough rock Oblivians for the hungry thirties inécoutable collectors. Arrival of a keyboard ... it is closer to Pere Ubu and Wire, and Goner Records.But the songs are heavy.
Nan.
It is "Blood Vision" in 2006, which changes everything. Here it is, then it is beautiful.
Jay was found, it is comfortable, it has 30 but sings like a teenager, it's personal rule, he left the school at age 15, at home it went wrong, compos clear, guitars trenchant, bitter, aggressive.
- It seems that his family is his records
- It looks like Dexter on the cover
- It is a little new wave, punk nan, punk rock true original, you know, Joy Division in their debut were more punk than the Sex Pistols in a way
- Y'a du Devo anyway, it's true he does everything alone?
Yes. Jay record all instruments alone.
And his records are better than his concerts.Coup.
Jay wrote a song a day, at the end of the week he warned one, then at the end of the month, it takes the best and came out in single.
And then there's this tension retro / new. You can find him in 1000 influences, but we can not imagine any band playing what he does. Yet his songs are very simple, even the Hives are more twisted. In fact I think he found the simple songs the hardest to call.
Jay Reatard has magical powers: he makes the best journalists.Thanks to him we could read a column written well, funny and interesting in Rock & Folk! (on the disc "Matador Singles'08" Rock & Folk No. 495)
Matador records.Signed this year. Not bad. Yo La Tengo, Mogwai, Cat Power ... When we signed with Matador, you become a big indie group. But a group indie has never slept on the floor of the stage completely drunk, a group known indie people in fashion and always repeated in a nice comfortable.
Nan, Jay may be pop, but will never be indie. His T-shirts are too blunt.
Jay treatable by the rock.And it is nice to see a friend heal. His music fade with time. After thrashy blues tune: punk rock inspired, shimmering. And now? Places to orchestral pop?According to Jay, the next album will include the organ, mandolin, cello, and many more choruses and harmonies. Fuck this guy purists.This man dedicated his life to the quest for the ultimate pop song. I like this guy. Listen to his albums.


What music did you listen to back in high school?
“I didn’t go to high school!”

Blood Visions (album, 2006, In the Red)
Singles 06-07 (compilation, 2008, In the Red)
Matador Singles 08 (compilation, 2008, Matador)

www.myspace.com/jayreatard www.myspace.com / jayreatard


Nicky Larsen