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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VINYL FORMAT. Joan of Arc and Bundini Brown (Bundy K. Brown), two of Chicago's most well-known performers, have released numerous records, associated themselves with incredibly creative musicians, and have now imbedded themselves together on the same piece of wax. This limited edition (1200 copies) has been in the works for months, and all the material is new and unreleased. Joan of Arc offer five tracks of rhythmic, heavy, mellow rock ? more structured, smooth, and gentle than past releases. Bundy K. Brown   [ 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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VINYL FORMAT. Inventive songs ranging from acoustic to more ambient electronicallydriven pop highlighted by the warmth & sincerity of Tim Kinsella's voice.

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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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VINYL FORMAT. The third full-length album by Chicago partisans d'aesthete, Joan of Arc. Guests include Jen Wood and one-third of the Chicago Underground Trio. Minimalism in excess, pop without formula. Includes a Scott Walker cover.

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VINYL FORMAT. Tim Kinsella (Cap'n Jazz, Owls, Friend/Enemy, Everyone), Joan of Arc's lead man, 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 at home, 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 (c   [ 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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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of Boo Human and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. The combination of fourteen musicians whose previous collaborations include Wilco, Iron & Wine, Bonnie Prince Billy, Beth Orton, and Prefuse 73 yields a truly diverse record that's as intense as it is intimate. Marked by intricate guitar melodies, non-cognitive wailing, and tense instrumentals, Boo Human is Joan of Arc's most    [ read more ]

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Order the Flowers LP and receive a free 7" (while supplies last)! Tracks are: "My Summer-Long High Wipeout," "The Surrender" and "A Man Needs a Maid." Pre-order Flowers and receive a free button and 11" x 17" poster (while supplies last)! Insound L   [ read more ]

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