MP3: “Oceans”

“OCEANS WILL BRING BACK YOUR BODY SOMEDAY”

Indian Jewelry is a van gang from Houston, Texas. I to the J. Blood on the streets.

TOTALED is their latest record, and their third album for We Are Free/Monitor Records.

TOTALED is weird, dirty and to the point, a direct line to the one true Indian Jewelry under Heaven.

No genre, no rules, no help.

IJ hasn't turned away from cracked cymbals, feedback, and burning amps. They're running them through more fx.

Erika Thrasher and Tex Kerschen wrote and recorded the record in 2009 in Houston and Los Angeles. TOTALEDis the sum of hundreds of shows on the road and hundreds of hours under headphones. The songs were developed with Richard Durham, Mary Sharpe, and Rodney Rodriguez.

TOTALEDis a crash course in sound + vision. In it is the swamp electro of 2003's We Are The Wild Beast, the nightmare throb of 2005's Invasive Exotics, and the sonic angel dream of 2008's Free Gold. This is an encounter with the true and the truly fucked up... woozy and heartpounding and subject to double-vision.

It's like arriving to the beach, headspun and weightless after a sleepless night, only to remember that a hurricane has come and wiped almost everything away. Hard grass crawls back over the improvised dunes, a few men fish in the surf, and Tejano music plays from the speakers of a parked pick-up.

If you're hearing funk, that's because they spend their time at home playing in Houston's Prince cover band 'Diamonds+Pearls.'

If you're hearing anything else, that's the sound of Houston underwater.

Other Things:

Erika Thrasher and Tex Kerschen curate the Persuasion exhibition series: http://persuasionart.wordpress.com
They also run the SWAMPBATS interview site: http://swampbats.wordpress.com

INDIAN JEWELRY

04-23 Austin, TX - The Mohawk (Austin Psych Fest)
04-24 Norman, OK - Norman Music Fest
06-08 Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex *^%
06-09 San Francisco, CA - Slim’s *^
06-11 Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios *^
06-12 Seattle, WA - Vera Project *^
06-15 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry *^
06-16 Kalamazoo, MI - The Strutt *^
06-17 Toronto, Ontario - Sneaky Dees (NXNE) *^
06-18 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa *^@#
06-19 Allston, MA - Great Scott *^$
06-20 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg *^
06-22 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *^
06-23 Charlotte, NC - Snug Harbor *^
06-24 Atlanta, GA - 529 *^
06-25 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jack’s *^
06-26 Austin, TX - Red 7 *^
07-09 Houston, TX - Khon’s +
07-10 Austin, TX - Mohawk +
07-11 Dallas, TX - Trees +

* with HEALTH
^ with Gold Panda
@ with Quintron
# with JEFF the Brotherhood
% with Best Coast
$ with the Death Set
+ with Lightning Bolt

Indian Jewelry
TOTALED
(We Are Free)
Street Date: May 11, 2010

Oceans
Look Alive
Lapis Lazuli
Excessive Moonlight
Sirens
Vison
Tono Bungay
+++++++
Simulation
Diamond Things
Never Been Better
Parlous Siege & Chapel
Heaven’s World Destroyer
Touching the Roof of the Sun
Dog Days

INDIAN JEWELRY LINKS:
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/indianjewelry

Band page: http://www.swarmofangels.com

Label: http://www.nowwearefree.com