Pain Will Polish Me - Vinyle Vert

Description

"Stormy and cathartic dark-pop gems," wrote Gorilla vs Bear about Jessica Weiss's early solo work. The singer-songwriter for Fear of Men, she imbues her solo project New German Cinema with the same lyrical precision and emotional intensity. The result of five years of work between London and Los Angeles, this project was built from late-night writing, long silences, and the quiet perseverance of two people trying to finalize a magnificent work, each on opposite sides of the world. Produced with Alex DeGroot (Zola Jesus, Cate Le Bon), the album is both precise and introspective: the work of an artist who doesn't rush catharsis. *Pain Will Polish Me* offers an experience that is both solitary and collective, as if woven from distant transmissions between two dreamers. Weiss describes it as a meditation on pop and the European auteur filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The album explores how intimacy and control intertwine until it becomes impossible to distinguish one from the other. These songs evoke the parts of oneself that dissolve in love, and the small violences inherent in fame. They explore suffocating relationships, obsession, abandonment, cycles of suffering that ultimately transform into devotion. The language is pop, but the feeling it describes is stranger, colder, more internal. The songs evolve in the shadows. It is an album about losing oneself to better see what remains. A testament to love as obsession, repetition, survival. A meditation on love as both mirror and destruction, shaped by fragments, then assembled into a whole.