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Entertainment Weekly gave the album a grade of B+, writing: "Unlike her wannabe-diva peers, this R. Kelly protegee remembers what the 'B' in R&B stands for....R. Kelly surrounds her with blaxploitation-vintage wah-wah guitars, haunting strings, and blue-collar blues; the resulting soul digs far deeper than Kelly's usual bump'n' grind".[2]
The result is an album that by far exceeds the sum of its parts, delivering a truly transcendent disco experience. The album goes in a gatefold jacket with extensive liner notes and unreleased photos of group.
There's room for both innovators and curators in indie rock, and if you appreciate the latter, perhaps you've found time for Blonde Redhead over the past two decades. Not all of us could be there to experience No Wave, SST-era Sonic Youth, or My Bloody Valentine as actual recording artists firsthand, but as Blonde Redhead stated on their 1997 album, Fake Can Be Just As Good. The group has always strived to be a gateway to cool and, as such, would probably take it as a compliment to suggest they never sounded like they could've been from anywhere other than New York.
That comes to an end on Penny Sparkle, an album whose quest to evoke a more comfortable point in our collective lives almost qualifies it as chillwave. Yet it's not the sound of "the beach" or "youth" that Penny Sparkle embodies, but rather our last economic boom period, a time that inspired countless chill-out compilations and dubious record deals from labels who swear they found their more radio-friendly Portishead. If you happen to be a music coordinator for Banana Republic, Penny Sparkle is an early Christmas gift. For everyone else, you're left to wonder whether 2010 will produce a more profoundly boring album from a band who actually had a reputation to uphold.
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BEST OF FRIENDS is just the beginning of a new lease on the musical life for sparkle*jets u.k., and they can still write them just as well as they can play them. For now, though, turn it up loud as sparkle*jets u.k. prepares for blastoff, shattering the sound barrier between yesterday and tomorrow and paying loving tribute to their BEST OF FRIENDS.
I am watching their video on YouTube as I type this, good stuff. The more I listen to BEST OF FRIENDS the more I like it and the more I listen to sparkle*jets u.k. the more I appreciate them.
Big Stir Records is thrilled to announce the return of Orange County, CA pop legends SPARKLE*JETS U.K. with their first full-length album release in over 20 years... and that's just the start of a new renaissance for the band that will play out over the next two years (and beyond). There will be covers, there will be originals, there will be podcasts and double-LP colored vinyl, there'll be nods to the past and sounds from the future, and, most importantly, the hooks, harmony, power, and quirk for which the band is beloved. Having issued the band's delightful 2019 one-off 7" single of Big Star and Chris Bell covers (recorded with Jody Stephens at Ardent Studios) and collaborated with SJUK's Michael Simmons on more projects than you will ever know, Big Stir is in the enviable position to be the new natural habitat for sparkle*jets u.k. as they kick off a new era, and we can promise you it's going to be something special.
The group, which was initially dubbed Happy Birthday!, was renamed sparklekets u.k., including the "U.K." tag because the name wasn't nearly wacky enough. The three bandmembers also shared a lot of musical common ground, starting at The Beatles and running through Electric Light Orchestra, Brian Wilson, Teenage Fanclub, Pixies, The Jackson 5. SJUK recorded their 1998 debut In, Through and Beyond and pressed just 1,000 copies. Copies of the disc made it into a single store, where rock journalist John Borack (Goldmine Magazine and the Shake Some Action power pop guidebooks) bought a copy, his decision based only on the cover art and 3.99 dollar price. After passing word onto pop fanatic and International Pop Overthrow organizer David Bash, sparkle*jets u.k. were soon inducted into the close-knit family of Los Angeles-based power pop acts and their fans, then in its fondly remembered heyday.
The delightfully absurd I Love SparkleJets U.K. multi-artist tribute album and the excellent 2001 sophomore album Bamboo Lounge would follow before the group went dormant on the recording front. Simmons would go on play a major role in Popdudes (with Borack, Knight, Robbie Rist, BSR's own Addison Love and many more) and form another multigenerational in the form of Yorktown Lads (also with Love and Cameron Lew). His own solo album First Days of Summer, recently reissued in expanded form on Big Stir, adorned many a Best of 2018 lists. The album, along with occasional and warmly received SJUK reunion gigs, paved the way for the Memphis sessions which yielded the new single.
SPARKLE*JETS U.K., beloved icons of the Turn-of-the-Century Southern California guitar pop scene, are most assuredly back. BIG STIR RECORDS is proud to announce not only the June 30 release of the band's first album in over 20 years, BEST OF FRIENDS, on 2-LP Vinyl and CD in record stores everywhere and streaming worldwide, but a veritable
SPARKLE*JETS U.K., beloved icons of the Turn-of-the-Century Southern California guitar pop scene, are most assuredly back. BIG STIR RECORDS is proud to announce not only the June 30 release of the band's first album in over 20 years, BEST OF FRIENDS, on 2-LP Vinyl and CD in record stores everywhere and streaming worldwide, but a veritable multimedia renaissance for the band throughout 2023. Bringing back not just the vibes of the scene that birthed them but the songs as well, SJUK's jaw-dropping new double album (up for pre-order and pre-save now: -uk-bestoffriends) is both a love letter of a tribute to the artists with whom they shared stages, and a thrilling revelation of those lost sounds to those who missed them the first time around.
And the media itself bears mentioning, not just because this is the first SJUK record to bow in the streaming era. The gorgeous double LP package includes complementary colored vinyl discs in powder blue and tangerine orange. There is of course a CD edition with a foldout replica of the vinyl's gatefold. And copies of both formats purchased via Big Stir's online points of sale (www.bigstirreords.com and the label's Bandcamp site) will come with a genuine vintage treat for fans: the original 2000 CD of the Various Artists Tribute collection I w sparkle*jets u.k., a veritable inverted prequel to BEST OF FRIENDS whereupon the band's millennial contemporaries paid homage to them. It's a lot to take in... best to sit back and watch it all unfold over the course of a pure-pop-saturated summer.
But it is most deservedly sparklejets u.k. who stand tall as the band of the hour on this vital revisitation of these tunes they know by heart. The amazing vocal and all-around instrumental prowess of Simmons has never been more clearly on display, nor West's singing more invitingly impassioned in bringing the belters to life, while KNIGHT owns the low end with the perfect pulses, grooves and tasty fills these sterling songs demand. The songs are such a perfect fit for the SJUK chemistry that if you didn't know differently, you'd think the trio had spent the past twenty years quietly writing the best guitar pop songs ever, until the day arrived when they could be quiet no longer. And the truth is, you wouldn't be wrong, as the future, and another stellar record, will reveal. But that's a story for another day: BEST OF FRIENDS is just the beginning of a new lease on musical life for our heroes, and they can still write 'em just as well as they can play them. For now, though, turn it up loud as SPARKLEJETS U.K. take flight once again, shattering the sound barrier between yesterday and tomorrow and paying loving tribute to their BEST OF FRIENDS.
Indeed, rumblings of the rebirth of that millennial pop sound seem to be everywhere. It would be more than accurate to call the new SPARKLEJETS U.K. single a sign of things to come. There's not only more of their intoxicatingly punchy pop sound in store for fans, but further fresh takes on the turn-of-the-century sound as well. And before you ask, yes, there's an album on the way. In fact, make that a double album, with dual-colored vinyl as one might expect, to say nothing of a multimedia campaign including more singles, videos, and a podcast series that's a veritable class reunion featuring the band in conversations with many of their peers from the halcyon days of two decades past. But don't mistake it for a pure nostalgia trip: SPARKLEJETS U.K. are very much a band of today, picking up where they left off and taking flight with their pop instincts and boundless inventiveness fully intact. We at Big Stir Records are honored just to be part of the flight crew.
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