K/W #01: The Je Ne Sais Quoi – Making Love with Time 12″
Stockholm’s The Je Ne Sais Quoi are a band that are constantly redefining and developing themselves and their sound. They started off as a two-piece garage band on their first EP, expanding themselves to a 5 piece on their debut, new wave-esque, album ‘We Make Beginnings’ and took it even further along that line with their last album ‘Rhythm’ where the now 6 piece blended in some glam, weird electronics and even some violins!
This new 12″ mirrors their evolution. The title track, Making Love With Time, is a synth driven, catchy and hasty song with a late 70’s pop feel. The second song, I Read the Signs, is holding back a little bit more, echoing the sound of mid-80’s new wave bands. The last track is a late 80’s acid house-like remix of the song ‘Rhythm’ by Eester Benny.
Songs:
1) Making Love with Time – 3:36
2) I Read the Signs – 3:19
3) Rhythm (Easter Benny Remix) – 3:35
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Pressing Info:
500 copies on clear vinyl with silkscreened side b.
25 copies on clear vinyl without silscreened side b, including ‘Schade Deutschland’ edition sheet.
20 copies testpressing on black vinyl with white labels with special edition sleeve (6 of which got lost in the mail).
This record has been released in colaborration with Mono/Rethorik Records on April 30th 2008 .
Order
You can order this record in our store.
Reviews
“The clock-face silkscreen on this one-sided EP is almost enough to make the record worth purchasing, but the quality of the music seals the deal. The title track continues very much in the punk-funk/disco direction of recent album “Rhythm”, further raising the bar with a squiggly synth bassline, plentiful hand-claps and prominent keyboard arpeggios. Follow-up track “I read the signs” goes for a more syncopated attack and leans far heavier toward the disco side of things. It’s not as immediately catchy as “Making love with time”, but it more than makes up for it by being a far more fully realized composition with many intricate parts and a superb vocal arrangement. Lastly, the Eester Benny remix of “Rhythm” brings it all together, layering complicated harmonies and patterns over an even squigglier, liquid bass track. What else can be said? Three out of three is alright by me.” – Avi Roig on It’s a Trap! Scandinavian Music Journal
“This new 12″ comes on clear vinyl, one-sided pressing with a cool silkscreening on the backside, making it look like a picture-disc! Features the newest recordings by this (now to 6 people expanded) band from Sweden. 2 new songs being somewhere in between synth-driven Pop and New Wave, plus an acid-house like remix of their song “Rhythm” by Eester Benny. Released in a one-time only edition of 500 copies.” – X-Mist Records
More on The Je Ne Sais Quoi
The Je Ne Sais Quoi is inspired by the sweat on Fela Kuti’s forehead, by the hairspray in Kate Pierson’s hairdo, ‘the splinters of wood around Steve Shelley’s drumkit and by the way Tina Turner manages to sing like she really loved Ike even though he was a mean fucker.
Members
CMG – guitars, vocals
JZI – guitars, keys, vocals
JRG – bass, vocals
FAG- livesounds
Links
The Je Ne Sais Quoi Website | The Je Ne Sais Quoi Myspace