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 Stud...   [ 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," but from the at...   [ read more ]

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