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• Released on: 1999-01-01
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The Movement Toward You
A bright new dark star of the indie set is shining and his name is Jett Brando. He is a crooner frontman of his own band which successfully combines the looseness of Pavement's best efforts with the hazy quality of early 90's Shoegaze. This is all filtered through a pure pop package. The songs on this release were recorded a couple of years ago, but they are immune to time since they're from an old school of classic writers such as Cole Porter. It's a melancholy album overall, but with hope somehere deep within. Highlights include: The Center of Gravity(Sink Right Down); Well, Well; Athuna; In The Dead Hot Sun.

album good, live show better, new stuff even better
Okay, so I've done a bit of research and I discovered that Jeremy Winter, aka Jett Brando, is essentially a singer/songwriter who plays and records with a rotating line-up of cohorts and co-production teams, including Pete Murphy(All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors), Alap Momin(Chisel, The Rye Coalition), Will Brooks(dälek, Oddateee), and Jesse Cannon(Misfits, Manda and the Marbles). His first album, "The Movement Toward You", is good for what it is; a stripped-down garage pop album that was probably made as his more heavily-produced former band, All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors, was falling apart.
So, i heard "The Movement...", really liked it, decided to check out the live show, and was pleasantly suprised. The songs came across as much stronger, with some newer ones that aren't on the album being very good as well.
Then i had the pleasure of hearing some newer recordings from a friend who said that it was circulating around his office and that a bunch of people were really into it. It's a new direction. A bit closer to the fullness of All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors. The result is something along the lines of what Beck would sound like if Old Blue Eyes was his Godfather and Kevin Shields was his producer.

--ds, fan of jb

Toward Movement
Rarely do I hear an album that affects me without knowing exactly how or in what way. "The Movement Toward You", by Jett Brando is one of those albums. It's songs are strangely haunting, and stay with you like a hint of your own shadow out of the corner of your eye. I can't really say I get the lyrics, but they're sung in such a way that makes it irrelevant. It's not the words, it's the feeling behind them. No, this isn't another screamo album for everyone to gnaw on. It's an ever so slightly twisted singer/songwriter album, delivered in a smooth, sad, and almost apologetically dark package. Definitely, one of the best I've heard this year.

--B.L.