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The Jimmy Cake formed as a ten-piece group in Dublin, Ireland in 2000 from the fresh remains of local experimental rock noise-niks Das Madman. In that time they have collaborated live with the likes of Damo Suzuki, Iva Bittova, and Charles Hayward while slowly drifting over the course of six albums from a pastoral psychedelia to full-on kosmische psych, fully realised on Master, their 2015 aural colossus. Drawing from the same sonic palette, Tough Love is another serpentine and ecstatic creation from one of Ireland's most consistently adventurous bands. Tough Love is the sixth studio album from experimental rock group The Jimmy Cake. Written in 2015 as a continuous piece for a one-off performance in The Joinery, a much-loved and badly-missed arts space in Dublin City, Tough Love is part kosmische post-punk dystopia, part time-lapsed motorik stoner rock. Both sides menace and swell, playing with time and space before building to two distinct strains of glorious sonic pay-off. "Thank God for The Jimmy Cake" --The Journal Of Music In Ireland (Review of Master). "In short, Master confirms The Jimmy Cake are this country's finest experimental rock band, hands down" --The Sunday Business Post (Review of Master). "Every city has one, a band that for some strange reason never really made it beyond its borders yet deserves to take over the world. Instead of being known for U2 or Westlife, Dublin should be known for The Jimmy Cake" --Brainwashed.com (Spectre & Crown Review)
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PIL 004CD
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"The Jimmy Cake are a nine-piece ensemble from Dublin, and Spectre & Crown is their first album in five years. Though relatively unknown outside their native Ireland until now, the band have spent many years building up a staggering reputation as one of the best live-bands around, even being invited to collaborate live with Can's Damo Suzuki on one very special occasion. Upon listening to Spectre & Crown, the follow-up to 2003's Superlady EP, it is easy to hear both the energy and virtuosity that have earned this band so much praise. Each track builds gracefully and carefully from an initial seed, be it the beautiful, accumulative piano of album-opener, 'Red Tony,' to the gentle rainfall of 'The Art of Wrecking.' Rather than focus on the quiet/loud dynamics that many bands of their size lazily fall into, the band instead offer interchanging instrumentation and intricate song structures in order to keep the energy of the listener flowing. This is no more apparent than on 'Haunted Candle,' where drums, guitars, piano, accordion, strings, brass and god knows what else emerge and disappear into the mix with ease and ability. In this respect, Spectre & Crown could be compared to the later albums of Jaga Jazzist or Tape's masterpiece, Rideau. Luckily, and for the above reasons, the band always fall on the right side of the redundant and over-used 'post-rock' tag, instead finding themselves in a space of their own where they are free to experiment and develop. Despite the number of people in the band the tracks always manage to show an element of restraint, a certain space that allows them to flow gracefully from beginning to end. Spectre & Crown is a fantastic album throughout, and comes recommended to anyone who is passionate about intelligent, nuanced and oft-beautiful music."
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