Jennifer Gentle, by Jennifer Gentle

Jennifer Gentle

by Jennifer Gentle

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1.	Oscuro 01:43	buy track
2.	Just Because 04:03	buy track
3.	Beautiful Girl 04:14	buy track
4.	Love You Joe 01:59	buy track
5.	Temptation 03:39	buy track
6.	Guilty 03:31	buy track
7.	Argento 00:47	buy track
8.	Only In Heaven 02:55	buy track
9.	Do You Hear Me Now 03:10	buy track
10.	You Know Why 04:12	buy track
11.	More Than Ever 03:26	buy track
12.	Swine Herd 07:58	buy track
13.	Spectrum 03:04	buy track
14.	What In The World 04:31	buy track
15.	My Inner Self 03:54	buy track
16.	Where Are You 04:21	buy track
17.	Theme 02:50	buy track

about

Jennifer Gentle are one of the most idiosyncratic Italian bands ever. Led by singer, guitarist and sometimes only member Marco Fasolo, they started their career in the early Noughties as slightly stoned-out-of-their-minds teens equally able to manage short psych pop explosions and 20-minute brain melting freakouts.
They quickly recorded a couple of self-released albums that raised some interest abroad and became the first Italian band to sign to American label Sub Pop, releasing two critically acclaimed albums in quick succession: 2005’s Valende (an exercise in hyperactive, sparkling pop mixed with pastoral acoustic vignettes) then followed in 2007 by the much darker and convoluted The Midnight Room (described in a Mojo review as “Syd Barrett lost in a 20’s Berlin cabaret”). With US and UK tours under their belt and their music on Rough Trade and Mojo compilations, Jennifer Gentle went on to play also on BBC radio shows and partecipated to several festivals including Green ManFestivals in the UK on main stage. Also gaining fans as different as Graham Coxon, Black Crowes, Mars Volta and Jarvis Cocker (who asked the band to open his Italian concerts).
After 2008, Marco Fasolo preferred to concentrate on production and soundtrack work. He came back in 2013 with the Universal Daughters’ album Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me, a beautifully heart-breaking charity project involving collaborations with the likes of Jarvis Cocker, Alan Vega, Gavin Friday, Chris Robinson, Ed Harcourt and many more.
In 2018, together with Liam Watson (White Stripes, Thee Headcoats etc.), Fasolo produced (at Toe Rag Studio in London) the first album by Turkish musician Umut Adan, later released to glowing reviews by UK label Riverboat Records. Also in 2018 Fasolo arranged and produced the first album by I Hate My Village, an Italian supergroup whose psychedelic take on Afro-funk has become a hugely successful live attraction: he later joined the band as a permanent member.

Now it’s 2019 and Marco Fasolo and Jennifer Gentle are officially back with their new, self-titled album. Immaculately produced by Fasolo himself, it’s a sprawling, full-bodied release touching all of Fasolo’s musical obsessions: it effortlessly bounces from a breezy soul glam, goofy funk, intricate baroque ballads, Joe Meek-like instrumentals and the trademark JG zippy psychedelia, without ever losing its focus on mood and detailed song construction.
By far their most complete and accessible album, Jennifer Gentle is above all an immersive listening experience and new evidence of Fasolo’s songwriting, aranging and producing unique abilities: a sometimes pensive, sometimes joyful musical parade to be absorbed as a whole.
Here it is, hoping you are going to love it too.

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released November 10, 2019

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