More listening: Jose Gonzalez

Nov 21, 2006 at 4:40 PM
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Everything old is new again! I went to Amoeba this weekend to trade in a bunch of CDs I've accumulated from SFist and get some new ones. After hearing about it for months and months, I finally got Jose Gonzalez' Veneer.

(Jose Feliciano + Lindsey Buckingham's latest record + Nick Drake) / super mellow = Veneer

Gonzalez does a nice job of melding sparse, hypnotic fingerpicking with mellow folk moodiness. Listen to "Crosses" from the album:

05 Crosses

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For those who are keeping track, Gonzalez rose to blog-fame last year for covering The Knife's "Heartbeats". The cover's alright, but really how can you improve on that original?

I also bought the new PJ Harvey and then yesterday I got a promo of it in the mail. @#%

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he's also on Zero Seven's latest album, "The Garden", and the dance remix by Jori Hulkkonen of "Crosses" is also ill na na. Y'know, if you like that sort of thing.

How do you like the new PJ? I totally forgot it was coming out so I'm downloading it right now. :D

Colleen, I think the new PJ is awesome!

Krissy replied to miz_ginevra’s comment:
Nov 22, 2006
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I'm gonna look for those tracks on Rhapsody now...

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