Photo: Marzena Abrahamik
Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse have signed with Kill Rock Stars and released the official video for their new single “Sun Inspector” earlier today.
Tim Kinsella released albums & toured at a steady clip for 25 years, his most well-known bands being Joan of Arc, Cap’n Jazz & Owls. Jenny Pulse is a vocalist, electronic musician & producer who has released dance-oriented pop songs under her own name & experimental soundscapes & field recordings as Spa Moans.
Collaborating since 2018, the married duo released two albums & toured as Good Fuck, making a practice of writing & recording in remote locations far from their Chicago home, including The Berkshires, the New Mexico desert, & a medieval city near Italy’s southern coast. Through 2020 they worked fast & loose, releasing monthly Bandcamp-only EPs to stay sharp in isolation & connected with their communities.
They have come to refer to their style that has emerged as “Total Music.” Jenny describes it as “groovy like ESG, moody like Black Sabbath, & moving like Julee Cruise, with the woo-woo of Art of Noise.” Their daily practice is studious & intentional so that its expression can be intuitive. Their ultimate goal is to shift perceptions —both the audience & their own—to reveal, to expand, & to deepen.
“—Most of our songs go thru long, slow evolutions & this song’s transformation is as profound as any of them. It began as dreamy layers of patterned choirs, synths, & vocals. We lived with it like that for at least six months before it ever occurred to us to add a slow beat. Another year passed & it came time to figure out how to play some songs live. This song, we reduced & transmogrified different melody lines into guitar & bass parts & then added a fast beat. The Sun Inspector, that’s the bureaucrat tasked w/ insuring that the sun doesn’t slack on its procedural duties.”
