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The Infinites — Archetypes (Meritorio)
A month or so ago, we caught up with Jared Leibowich’s solo record, Secret Spells, an impressive piece of home-recorded anthemry of which I wrote, “Jared Leibowich’s songs sound much larger than bedroom pop, with their massed vocals and clanging, chiming guitars. [His] expansive, ebullient solo album merit[s] comparisons to the Papercuts, White Fence and Peel Dream Magazine.”
“But have you heard the Infinites?” came one or two responses, a nice change from the dead silence that typically follows a record review. And no, not then, but soon after, this second album from Leibowich’s collaborative project with Dan Levine arrived, and indeed it was very good.
This is a storytelling project, not a confessional one. The debut album featured 13 brief fictional narratives, each about a separate character, over the dreamy clarity of Levine’s guitar loops. Album two is similarly outward facing, this time taking as inspiration 12 archetypes, that is typical examples of a genre of person, a queen, a bureaucrat, a secret agent, a ghost, etc. And yet while this might seem like an approach that would lead to generalities, in fact, each song is specific and engrossing. “The Bureaucrat,” for instance, filling out paperwork is not too busy to long for romance. “The Night Cleaner” toils alone and self-sufficient, after everyone else is gone.
All this unfolds over shimmering layers of guitar and other rock instruments, a trebly romantic onrush that recalls, again, The Papercuts, Wiretree and, in certain lights, post-new wave bands like Tears for Fears. The Infinites have expanded since the debut to include a full band line-up of Ian Rundle on guitar with Levine, Miles Kelley on bass and Sam Jordan on drums. The sound is full and urgent, but also soft enough to encourage dreamy staring out of windows.
“The Ghost” is, perhaps, the best of these tunes, an agglomeration of limpid, yearning guitars, wistful melody and a churning, propulsive bass. If Leibowich’s solo album filled out the contours of bedroom pop into something large and stirring, this work with the Infinites does a nice job of balancing wispy threads of vulnerability with the muscular energy of rock. Listen to how Leibowich’s near falsetto flutters fragilely, at the end of verses, while the band powers in behind him. Delicate beauty and resounding rock crescendo live in uneasy accord. The same thing happens in the following “My Best Friend,” where a plaintive “It’s time to fall again” drifts off into contemplation as the full weight of guitar sound pushes towards resolution.
Archetypes views romantic longing through a variety of lenses. Its characters have different jobs and circumstances but all wish, in their own ways, for love and connection. The music supports this narrative with luminous romantic pop made of glistening guitar tones and pulsing tendons of bass and drums. It’s an embodiment of a certain kind of indie guitar rock, an archetype if you will, and a good one.
Jennifer Kelly
#the infinites#archetypes#meritorio#jennifer kelly#albumreview#dusted magazine#jared leibowich#romantic pop
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Jared Leibowich – Secret Spells LP (Bruit Direct)
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New work by a guy who always impresses with new works. Constantly surprised and overjoyed by whatever Jared throws down the pike; maaaaaybe there was a Zoltars LP I wasn't 100% about but who knows, he might not've been either! Secret Spells comes in between releases by new band The Infinites and resembles his most realized effort, strings dutifully chugging behind cascading stings of guitar and grace that hasn't always been within his realm, but it's working maybe better than ever. Ten songs that hit the midpoint between Brian Wilson and My Dad Is Dead's Mark Edwards, the stars firmly removed from his eyes and cataracting on yours. It sounds like his confidence has matched his levels of freedom and both are frankly thriving. Whenever I listen to this guy's work I can think of nothing else but that work. I don't drift and the songs stay with me for a good while after, like I've stared at a bright image and it's burned into whatever I see next. There's even a song about a grifter we all know and it's so resolute. Man. Jared Leibowich. (vinyl in the states available from https://thebusinessanacortes.com/shop/secret-spells-by-jared-leibowich-lp/ – ROW you can hit up http://bruit-direct.org or get digital/tape from the Bandcamp player above).
(Doug Mosurock)
#still single#review#bandcamp#doug mosurock#jared leibowich#the zoltars#the infinites#austin texas#fuck sxsw#Bandcamp
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Jared Leibowich in review
jared leibowich in review with his lp "secret spells" at dusted, still single and yellowgreenred
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nice surprise, today and yesterday, that fantastic lp by mr. Leibowich got another batch of raving reviews
Jennifer Kelly over at Dusted writes that Jared “has made an expansive, ebullient solo album here, meriting comparisons to the Papercuts, White Fence and Peel Dream Magazine and, even, once or twice, the Beach Boys in its full multi-tracked, multi-vocaled glory.”
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The Infinites- Archetypes (Meritorio)
I reviewed one of the singles from this album a month or so back and here’s the full album and it’s a terrific batch of songs. This Austin, quintet is basically the brainchild of vocalist Jared Leibowich and guitarist Dan LeVine. Eventually they added another guitarist Ian Rundell, and the rhythm section of bassist Miles Kelley and drummer Sam Jordan and then the band really began to gel.
I liked their debut album just fine but Archetypes is a huge step forward. The band is completely locked in, each song a mini-masterpiece. The thing about The Infinites is that they really sound like no one else. Pop songs just slightly askew, a tad off-kilter in the best way possible. Leibowich’s nearly plaintive vocals are the icing on the cake. On most cuts, the vocals are perfect rolling melodies that are riding side by side and perfectly entwined within the music.
Cuts like “The Bureaucrat,” “The Queen,” “Secret Agent” and “The Dead” are just a few of the moving, lovely cuts on here (“Guilty Man,” too). The songs will bring out feelings that you never knew you had and they come out in a rush of pure delight!
www.theinfinites.bandcamp.com
www.meritoriorec.bandcamp.com
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The importance of collage
As we saw in a previous post, collage and montage goes together especially when it comes to AMVs.We could say that they are most important “ingredients”, when it comes to AMVs’ creation.
“Collage is not the only parallel technique to montage, however. The use of collage and montage can be seen in poetry, such as in the writing of T.S. Eliot, where sets of seemingly arbitrary words are strung together to create new meanings. Furthermore, the collage/montage device can even be seen in the music of today, where producers create “mash-ups” of songs to create a new unique hybrid song. Thus, while collage and montage are usually associated with visual art, they actually apply to a wide array of mediums.” (Jared Leibowich,montage,2007.)
It's easy to ignore and not notice the power of collage in every frame of an Anime music video. The fact that the AMV creator has to write a scenario, or at least a quick overview of the video in order to make it, is often ignored. But the truth is that behind every image, every second we see, there is usually a lot of work and processing, in order to attribute the creator’s vision. Lots of masking ,rotoscoping, camera tracking,VFX and other creative procedures, are required in order to visualize the creator’s vision.
The reason why one may not realize this complexity, I think, has to do mainly with the lack of knowledge, either on the technical aspect or on the raw material, which the creator has to work with. That is understandable and expected for someone who has not been involved in this type of activity. It is hard to understand what is supposed to be edited and what is not, what is part of the show and what has been added or is original creation. The same goes for the part of music, whose work is often not appreciated or overlooked.
So whether you are talking about compositing or remixing or any other form of collage, it is important to recognize the effort and attention to detail, the creators put on their videos. That is why it is necessary to understand the importance of collage in this area. From a simple crossover ,to intricate creations of new environments and entities.
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Leibowich Jared ,“montage” , The Chicago School of Media Theory,2007.
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Jared Leibowich, “Please Never Take Me Home”
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JARED LEIBOWICH Welcome Late Bloomers cassette (Unblinking Ear - 2015)
It’s no secret that Fuckin’ Record Reviews swoons at the feet of Jared Zoltar’s spillage. Excellent new solo gobble from the man via unblinkingearrecords, flying free like a free bird, and this bird you can not change.
Listen/purchase: Welcome Late Bloomers by Jared Leibowich
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Jared Leibowich — Secret Spells (Bruit Direct Disques)
Jared Leibowich’s songs sound much larger than bedroom pop, with their massed vocals and clanging, chiming guitars. The songwriter, who got his start with Austin bands including the Zoltars and the Infinites, has made an expansive, ebullient solo album here, meriting comparisons to the Papercuts, White Fence and Peel Dream Magazine and, even, once or twice, the Beach Boys in its full multi-tracked, multi-vocaled glory.
Consider, for instance, “Can I Hear Your Story?” a sugar rush of criss-crossing vocals and gauzily irresistible hook. Around Leibowich’s main vocal melody, a chorus of overdubbed descants swirl, filling out the space, as drums pound and guitars exult. It’s such a good song, and so very different from the guy-on-stool-with-guitar-moaning-about-his-love-life standard that solo, self-recorded pop often adheres to.
These are not, in general, confessional songs. The palette is much larger than Leibowich’s personal experiences; it explores imaginative visions that are not quite real. For instance, “Without Fail,” which opens the second side, is a third-person story song about a dangerous pied piper sort of performer. He captures his audience with words and doesn’t let them go. It billows and masses and lilts in soft-focus hookiness, very much in line with Jason Quever’s best work with Papercuts.
A few of the songs rock out a little harder, shaped by sharper guitars and rowdier drums. “Don’t You Fall Down” is one of these, a jagged garage pop gem that punches as hard as it daydreams.
It’s always difficult to put a finger on exactly what makes one album of guitar pop better than another, but this is a good one, eccentric and wistfully pretty and not at all limited by the format. Leibowich is thinking in larger terms — of choirs and orchestras and baroque poetry — and making that stuff out of what’s at hand.
Jennifer Kelly
#jared leibowich#secret spells#bruit direct disques#jennifer kelly#albumreview#dusted magazine#bedroom pop#garage pop#papercuts#beachboys
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The Infinites- “The Expat” single (Meritorio Records)
I wrote about this Austin, TX band’s debut from 2019 and am really glad to hear that LP #2, Archetypes, will be out in February of 2024 courtesy of the righteous Meritorio Records label (last year’s Dan and Jared was a demos album).
The band is mainly the work of Jared Leibowich (who was in Austin’s very fine Zoltars) and Dan LeVine on guitar (Ian Rundell is the other guitarist) while the rhythm section, Miles Kelley on bass and Sam Jordan on drums, is most definitely on board as well.
This first single for the forthcoming album dances and side steps (waltzes, even) with Jared singin' “Something keeps on calling me…” while he draws the lines way out. The guitars mingle perfectly and when that instrumental part kicks it sounds like some lost Gary Numan/Tubeway Army riff taken, polished up, and used again (I thought for sure it was a keyboard in there, but not seeing a keyboard listed on the credits…hmmmmm).
.With “The Expat” being this good now I’m dying to hear the whole record. I say bring it on.
www.theinfinites.bandcamp.com
www.meritoriorec.bandamp.com
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HEATHEN DISCO show no. 358 up now -- listen below
You can't unhear this. Independently owned and operated Heathen Disco for Nov 12th, 2023. Here's what I played:
Arthur Russell - All-Boy All-Girl
Idea Fire Company - High Test
Mary Jane Dunphe - Moon Halo
The Lewers - Scarlet Vermillion
Mope City - Sweean
Jared Leibowich - Without Fail
The Serfs - Ending of the Stream
Livskraft - 1
808 State - Pacific 909
R.F.M.C. - Two Stars
Tyvek - U-Hauls
Institute - Dopamine for My Baby
Hard Copy - Caravaggio
Lupo Cittá - Shawano Pickup
SPLLIT - Time Passing Dirge
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Strange Mail
The American Devices - Interlarding
Honolulu High - Three Queens
Vacuum - Dredd (Sow Discord remix)
Gary Toms Empire - 7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Blow Your Whistle
Truly - If You Don’t Let it Die
The Dream Syndicate - That’s What You Always Say
Colin Potter - Mainland
Raekwon - Striving for Perfection / Knuckleheadz
Mark Stewart - Hypnotized
Kübler-Ross - Go On Your Way
Trooper - Body Language
Shotmaker - Shortwave Radio
Katarsi - Cruel
CIM - Lead Point
Sun City Girls - Just Say No to Why
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The Chicago School of Media Theory on Montage
“The Oxford English Dictionary defines montage as “the process or technique of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of films to form a continuous whole; a sequence or picture resulting from such a process”. Another definition it gives for montage is “the act or process of producing a composite picture by combining several different pictures or pictorial elements so that they blend with or into one another; a picture so produced”.
With the purpose to incite, came the one of the most powerful tools in cinema: montage. This tool is highly poetic because it can be used to convey in the cinema what is the parallel to the literary metaphor. For example, just as the masses are being shot down in the movie, a Soviet director might quickly cut to a shot of a bull being slaughtered (this example is from Eisenstein’s Strike), thus distributing the message that the masses were being slaughtered like animals.” ( Jared Leibowich ,”montage”, 2007)
“Montage can be used for other purposes as well.It can be used, as a device for establishing spatial and temporal relationships within a movie. In fact, most action and suspense movies rely on the power of montage to create excitement. A famous director who uses montage to create suspense is Alfred Hitchcock. In his movie, Psycho, when the protagonist is murdered, Hitchcock cuts between the killer’s knife and the woman in the shower, so the audience realizes the woman is being murdered, without the knife actually having penetrate the woman.” ( Jared Leibowich ,”montage”, 2007)
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“The concept of montage has its parallels in other art mediums; an example of this is collage.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines collage as “an abstract work of art in which photographs, pieces of paper, newspaper cuttings, string, etc., are placed in juxtaposition and glued to the pictorial surface”. Furthermore, this juxtaposition of multiple seemingly different things challenges the unity of conventional art forms and thus challenges the grand narrative of art. “ ( Jared Leibowich ,”montage”, 2007)
Source:
Leibowich Jared ,“montage” , The Chicago School of Media Theory,2007.
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The Infinites- S/T (FIRST HUMANS RECORDS)
This is a debut by this Austin, TX quintet and if you’ve dipped your toe in to that scene then you know some of the bands from which these folks came out of. Vocalist Jared Leibowich was/is in The Zoltars (and released a fine solo album a few years back ) while other members called Ghetto Ghouls and The Hermits home. Again, on here Leibowich just sings and his vocals mixed with the twin guitar attack of Dan LeVine and Ian Rundell (who recorded it) is a sweet, sweet thing (let’s not forget the rhythm section of Miles Kelley on bass and Sam Jordan on the drums). I know one thing, there’s a definite chemistry between these five individuals, as the songs glide along, almost effortlessly. Oh and the song are all named after random people, or at least people’s names. Opening cut “Nina Sergovia” will give you a taste of the bigger dish and don’t miss the excellent “Scott McMurray” (who I think I went to grade school with) and the dreamier “Ken and Yvette.” The jangling, driving “Jimmy Smith’ is probably my favorite song on here and you’ll have to listen to the very end to learn about “Diane Brown” and you will want to listen and learn. Musically one reviewed mentioned Real Estate and The Infinites are definitely in the same ballpark but where Real Estate can occasionally bore me to tears (I cry easily), The Infinites never bore me. www.firsthumansrecords.com https://theinfinites.bandcamp.com/
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