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By: Mark Gomes
Date: 19th Sep 07
Release: Compilation
To Cure: A predictable playlist
What:
ESP
Who:
Nervous Jerk
On:
Nervous Jerk / Remote Control
Where:
Inertia store / Remote Control store / usual independent stores
Related Links:
Nervous Jerk blog
Tireless music personality and friend of ThreeThousand and nownow, Michael Kucyk (AKA Nervous Jerk) holds up an ingenious mirror for us to see with the new concept album compilation, ESP. Assembled more along the lines of an obsessive fanzine or curated visual art show than your regular label sampler - ie: with planned, combinative aesthetic effect - this document stages new meaning to the music of more than 20 acts in a spirit of positive unification. Like the refrain from local eternal-flames Panel of Judges' opener ‘Absolute Boys' - "These things only come around every so often" - the overall feeling here is of a specious, unheard creativity, delivered to listeners as a personal gift.
Local notables and Nervous Jerk stable artists Sly Hats, Always, Kiosk, The Stabs and Fabulous Diamonds all appear, but so too do the seldom heard Superstupid (flat-out cosmic garage spliff), Hi God People (re-scored Zabriskie Point desert freakout), Sean Bailey (restless distorto prayer) and Birth Glow (spectral campfire folk). As many transcontinental artists again are included, revealing the far-reaching success of this young label's community-building predicate - Paul Flaherty and Chris Corsano, Weird War and Calvin Johnson all seamlessly beam into the meeting of psychic hearts.
Summed: a triumphant archive tour of Nervous Jerk's fertile trans-underground network.