Make Believe is the 2003 touring version of Joan of Arc. After three months of touring solidified their playing, they returned home and decided to write new songs together. They wanted it to be something different than Joan of Arc -- a true collaboration that reflected a different approach to songwriting, something with a more aggressive approach. It had to speak for itself and shake whatever connotations the band name Joan of Arc had acquired. And they've managed to do just that. The EP begins its reign of   [ read more ]

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How Memory Works, Joan of Arc's second album, displays perhaps the most creative use of electronics and composition within a rock framework since Analogue's stunning 1996 opus AAD. Like AAD, How Memory Works is woven together by bits of analog synth noise and short songs that never overstay their welcome. The band makes an emotional impact with varying speed. The faster songs bristle with a romantic, smile-inducing urgency, especially "This Life Cumulative," with its insistent beat,    [ read more ]

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Tim Kinsella (Cap'n Jazz, Owls, Friend/Enemy, Everyone) is in constant musical flux. This flux allows Kinsella to consistently produce even as he simultaneously juggles three active bands. The result? Kinsella has amassed a collection of songs culled from a variety of sources -- sketches begun on his computer, collaborations with kindred spirits from coast to coast, odds, sods, and half-fleshed creations ? and given them life as the much-lauded Joan of Arc. Recorded and mixed by Graeme Gibson at Clava Studi   [ read more ]

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In Rape Fantasy... was assembled as a loose sequel to its conservative bigger brother So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness. Recorded simultaneously, they were intended to be a single album -- but they grew. Some songs were written in the studio before and after a friend/ enemy tour. Some songs came from Tim and Mike Kinsella fleshing out fractured guitar pieces brought in by Sam Zurich. The epic 22-minute title piece came from Tim not trying to do side 2 of Bauhaus' "The Sky's Gone Out," bu   [ read more ]

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With a new label, a new direction, and a new set of songs, Chicago's Joan of Arc add another chapter to their eight-year mythos with "Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain...." Simply put, it's their best album yet. Recorded during a stint between two national tours in their hometown of Chicago, "Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain..." expands upon the usual tradition of experimentation and gadgetry with the inclusion of an overall sense of cohesiveness and underlying melody. Add the mixing talents of John    [ read more ]

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On their fourth album in as many years, Joan of Arc may have gone just a little too far. Tim Kinsella (apparently he added an "s" to his last name for this record) and company seem a bit short on ideas this time around. Actually, there are also the possible excuses that they had plenty of ideas, just not any surprisingly good ones, or that they are the purveyors of a complicated in-joke that no one else is privy to. Any way you look at it, The Gap is a difficult record to take. Among the sounds of    [ read more ]

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Eventually, All at Once was in part a spontaneous creation, even though the genesis for the songs began months earlier. A good analogy would be childbirth: a nine month gestation period followed by a few hours of labor, or in this case five days of recording in February 2006 by the collective known as Joan of Arc. The labor was documented by a portable 8-track tape machine at Donna Kinsellla's home in Buffalo Grove, IL, the childhood residence to both Tim and Mike Kinsella. In fact, Mike's former bed   [ read more ]

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From the ashes of the legendary Chicago emo band Cap'n Jazz came the Promise Rings boys and this highly experimental and very quirky pop-synth, whiny-soothing indie rock band Joan of Arc. This, their first release, consists mainly of interesting and calm instrumentation, odd sounds and effects, and the sometimes heavenly, sometimes over-the-edge vocals of Tim Kinsella. Most people will either fall in love immediately with this album, or find it hideous. But there is definitely something that sta   [ read more ]

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This record collects, for the first time, all the rare, out of print, vinyl only, comp tracks, and Japanese bonus tracks the band has released in their ten year history. Clocking in at 19 tracks with over 70 minutes of music, this is the definitive Joan Of Arc collection to own. "Joan Of Arc is the most musically ambitious, emotionally shaded, and self-consciously labyrinthine pop group to slip down the pike since literate leprechaun of love Green Garthside pitched post-structuralist woo to Jacques Derrida    [ read more ]

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Order Flowers and receive a free button and 11" x 17" poster (while supplies last)! Despite being written over the course of a year in four different sessions with four different lineups, the songs on Flowers sound more cohesive than those on last year's Boo Human. This experience    [ read more ]

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Say what you want about Tim Kinsella's voice, but his is an instrument capable of producing beautiful music both in and out of tune, sung or screamed. His lyrics are smarter and, at times, more sincere than most of the typical sentiments projected by American indie rock. It's clear the guy knows what he's doing, but too often on Joan Of Arc's new album Live In Chicago, 1999, one wishes Kinsella would just allow himself to rock out. Part of the charm of Joan Of Arc's excellent {^How Memory Wor   [ read more ]

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Joan of Arc's mastermind Tim Kinsella wrote and directed the 2007 film Orchard Vale, and recruited old members of his defunct band to record the soundtrack. This limited edition CD contains the haunting experimental sounds that made the band so beloved amongst late-1990s hipsters.

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