In preparation to drop Acid, Jenny’s been posting some not very amusing sketches to YouTube, featuring Ben Gibbard, Jonathan Rice, and actual music from the LP. So, yes “The Next Messiah”‘s special sketch involves Ben Gibbard in a closet with a bunch of pink heart-shaped balloons that have Acid Tongue inscribed upon them. After that gets over with, you’ll hear the song, which is far away from the gentle country and choral backings of the title track. Instead it’s a stomping (and later, funky) southern blues-rock bit with slide guitars and lots about Jenny’s daddy (“he was a chancer” and a bouncer and, of course, the next messiah).
Strong shift at 5:17 and if you haven’t yet, you can hear “Acid Tongue.” Here’s the DL.
If you’re keeping tabs on Acid, that’s two down, tour to go:
09/15 – Albuquerque, NM@ Sunshine Theatre
09/16 – Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre
09/17 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theatre
09/18 – Lawrence, KS @ The Granada
09/19 – Chicago, IL @ Epiphany
09/20 – Omaha, NE @ Anchor Inn*
09/21 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium*
09/22 – Knoxville, TN @ Bijou Theatre*
09/23 – Fayetteville, AR @ George’s Majestic Lounge*
09/24 – Oxford, MS @ Lyric Theatre*
09/25 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom*
09/26 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits
09/28 – Austin, TX @ La Zona Rosa*&
09/30 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
10/01 – Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre
10/02 – Washington, DC @ Sixth & I Synagogue
10/03 – Wilmington, DE @ Grand Opera House
10/04 – New York, NY @ Apollo Theatre
10/05 – New Haven, CT @ Shubert Theatre
10/08 – Paris, France @ Le Maronquinerie
10/09 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg
10/10 – Hamburg, Germany @ Knust
10/11 – Berlin, Germany @ Lido
10/13 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Kagelbanan
10/14 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega Junior
10/16 – Cologne, Germany @ Gebaude 9
10/17 – London, England @ Koko
10/18 -Glasgow, Scotland @ QMU
10/19 – Dublin, Ireland @ Button Factory
10/25 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom*
10/26 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox*
* w/ Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
& w/ M. Ward
Acid Tongue is out 9/23 on Warner. Blotterrfic.
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that’s not two songs. there’s just a change at 5:17 into another movement. it’s pretty clear it’s not two songs, because toward the end of the recording she starts going back into the “next messiah” stuff.
even though i did enjoy the title track, i can’t help but still feel jenny lewis and the rest of her friends in rilo kiley are nothing but opportunistic genre thieves only capable of replicating what has come before rather than doing anything even a little unique.
you’re fucking ridiculous. every artist takes from their influences, but if you think JL and RK are exactly replicating their influences then you must not have heard them.
“[Ben Gibbard], please come out of the closet.”
I kid. That dude’s not a player but he totally crushes a lot.
I love Jenny, but… those sketches are very unfunny. Blake got all the humor in Rilo KIley.
Does anyone else in California feel a bit left out? No CA stop?
It’s like the middle of nowhere tour. She needs to come to Seattle! I was *this* close to driving to Colorado, but I’ll just be getting back from Tucson…
Clearly I can’t read. She IS coming to Seattle in October!
yeah! what’s the deal?? I want me some Jenny
the vocals are way way to loud in the mix.
otherwise, fun.
Alan Knut?
Blake is possibly the un-funniest thing I’ve ever come across…
looks like Jenny is ditching the sweet harmonies of her last LP RFC in favor of a grittier sound. Couldn’t be more fitting, or any less awesome.
Epic.
male vocal is johnathan rice, currect beau. general fyi. she’s been working overtime to get his pretty poor records off the ground
boooo
Those sketches are so not funny. They’re the kinds of things your gf would make thinking is really good but you’d have to feign interest in or else.
Is that hat from Jenny’s hat collection?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDLcleGtWN0
Why can’t I see the video? It’s saying that it’s private, but it’s a youtube video. Damnit I wanna see it!