Presents The Modal Lines

Description

Elegantly modern, yet more authentic than today's psychedelic avant-garde, "Jetenderpaul Presents the Modal Lines" pulls off a feat in 13 tracks: irony without emptiness, homage without imitation. This third album by Jetenderpaul reveals these young indie pop musicians, freshly graduated, embracing pop melodies at the heart of their bedroom musical experiments.Each track on "The Modal Lines" lasts about three minutes, offering cohesion and melodic development superior to their previous opuses, and brimming with brilliant transformations. One finds experimentation with complex pop formulas, revisited and transformed, but also a profusion of catchy melodies. They could be compared to The Flaming Lips, Guided By Voices or Ween, but also to groups close to Elephant Six like Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power or Of Montreal, with a less pronounced psychedelic touch. If the catchy melodies and offbeat sounds of their tracks aren't enough, Jetenderpaul uses an arsenal of eclectic instruments and sounds: sitar, bells, timpani, strings, analog sounds... Some artists move from one genre to another, but here, as elsewhere, JTP blends and blurs them. It's therefore not surprising to find youthful pop influences, old-time rock 'n' roll and a myriad of other fragments. Jetenderpaul remains true to its distant origins, a true chameleon of modern music. Formed in Olathe, Kansas, in 1996, Jetenderpaul seizes the soul of the Midwest and puts it through the mixer of paranoid pop.One could describe their music as subversive covers or a reinterpretation of the Beatles, but the result is aggressive music, imbued with humility and depth.