Indian Jewelry Band Biography
Source(google.com.pk)The Houston-based Indian Jewelry are heavily reliant on drone, industrial noise, and tribal thrums. So far, most of their recorded energy has been focused on keeping things off-center, psych-driven, and plenty heady. So it was surprising to hear "Oceans", the first track off their latest full-length Totaled, get a lift from an ample dose of groove. The song hinted that, instead of another hour of deranged séances, we might be in store for an hour of deranged séances with song-oriented post-punk interpretations thrown in. And it's partly true true: Indian Jewelry have updated their patented weirdness to embrace a more approachable look, one that even borders on catchy.
Totaled, much as its title suggests, works best when the band takes abstracted elements from other genres, burn them to the ground, and try to summon something from the ashes. The genre destruction is a neat technique that marks most of the album's first half, though usually expressed in subtle ways. Early tracks "Look Alive" and "Lapis Lazuli" contain the same draggy, drugged-out elements that popped up on the band's previous LP Free Gold! and reinforce the sound with bleak doses of darkwave and an obvious appreciation for Bauhaus. But the tracks that wade into new territory are the ones that work the best. "Excessive Moonlight" has an uncomfortably dark R&B feel, "Tono Bungay" is a dry psych slow-burner, and "Vison" boasts new wavey synths. Here Indian Jewelry draw energy from song forms instead of simply reveling in their strangeness for the sake of the freak-out.
But Totaled's second act negates the progress made on the material that precedes it. Though they have a way with haunting soundscapes and spiky textures, the heavily processed drone and wandering noise cycles become tedious, rendered even flatter with the same collapsed, burnt-out vocal intonations, as the tracks just sit there, woefully light on contrast. The back half feels short on ideas and long on time, even if it's easy enough to get lost in gauzy layers. On the whole, though, Totaled's pace and moods even out well enough, even if a full-blown left turn from the band's familiar sound would have really hit the spot.
We believe this force – which some call a band, which some call a cult, which some say rests its collective head in Houston, TX – to be known to enlist the tools of amplification, electronics, passion, paranoia and drums, drums, drums, in an effort to dramatically demonstrate and radically remind us of something the very, very dead William “Free Gold!” Burroughs once said: “Rock music can be seen as one attempt to break out of this dead soulless universe and reassert the universe of magic.”
And we believe this force looks good doing it.
We believe this force to have a compounding effect, their albums becoming more dynamic with each and every listen. We believe the band is nearly peerless with regard to the artistic process of today – we believe Indian Jewelry when they say, “In every practice space across the world, truly awful bands are rehearsing their shitty music, but that will NEVER be us; we don’t rehearse.”
We believe we are fortunate to see Indian Jewelry as part of the great collection of weirdos that will gather to perform at Austin Psych Fest 2012, and we believe we are just as fortunate to present this interview with Indian Jewelry’s Tex Kerschen. Enjoy.
Would you have expected yourself to be making music as singular and strange as that of Indian Jewelry when you were, say, fifteen years old? Was there a first time that you can recall having the distinct feeling that your musical tastes would grow to be perhaps more adventurous than many of your friends or peers? What influence did your parents have on your early musical interests? Can you think of a song from your childhood that still resonates with you today – and why do you think that is?
I’m the oldest of seven children; our family was a portable Irish ghetto, and there was always music playing at home. I don’t think I’ll ever hear Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” or Willie Nelson’s “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” without thinking of my mother. I grew up in the suburbs of Houston between the metalheads and the skaters, but I always had my own ideas. The music we make in this band is the kind of music I’ve wanted to make since I can remember. I don’t think of it as strange music at all – just human.
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