Musical Style Pop/Rock
Influences Beatles, psychedelia

Item Description
Plastic jewel case, color booklet

Liner Notes, Credits, Other Details
In February 2004 Jennifer Gentle became the first Italian band ever to sign with Sub Pop Records. Valende is the third Jennifer Gentle studio album and Sub Pop debut. It was recorded and mixed in the same dark basement in Padova, Italy, but it’s amazing how better equipment, decent mics and an awful lot of work can make an album sound warm and luscious. It is also very different from the previous Jennifer Gentle albums: there are a couple of the usual brainless pop nuggets, but most of the album has a sad, even spooky feel. It is a collection of sinister campfire scenes and that dizzying sensation of loss you can have under a moonlit sky. Marco and Alessio played all the instruments and sang all the vocals. As usual, they tried new instruments and new solutions: toy glockenspiel, bowed guitars, old Bontempi air organs, plastic flutes, chains and clocks pop up here and there (and a deflating helium balloon makes for a good solo in “I Do Dream You!”).

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