Monday, February 27, 2023

Movie Jail’s debut single “Call The Neighbors” (out now) is a “hooky sonic barrage” (MAGNET) of “hypnotic, airy indie rock” (Brooklyn Vegan)

See video in which a comedian bombs so badly “his microphone decides to make an escape.” EP mixed by John McEntire of Tortoise out this Friday.

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Movie Jail (L-R) Kim Conlee, Nick Coleman, Dave Cobb, Austin Wilkerson, and Thomas Sinclair as photographed by Nick Thelen

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Movie Jail | In The Press

“Hooky sonic barrage.” — MAGNET

“New wave guitar scratch against lush and shimmering Stereolab-style.” — Treble

“Hypnotic, airy indie rock.” — Brooklyn Vegan

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“The video started as one of those ideas you write on a scrap of paper before falling asleep,” explains Dave Cobb of Movie Jail about the clip for “Call The Neighbors,” the band’s debut single. See it now via MAGNET here or at the links above. Cobb continues, “A comedian is bombing so badly that his microphone decides to make an escape. I like stories that pit characters against unseen forces or absurdity. And there are a lot of parallels between comedy and music – how they either captivate an audience or fall flat.

“The main actor, Ruda Tovar, does stand-up comedy in real life, so we relied on his ideas and instincts throughout the shooting. He improvised the scene where he is leaving notes on the dressing-room mirror, which ended up fitting the overall theme. I suppose the message is: Don’t chase the mic!”

Members of Movie Jail are available for interview. Please contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more info.

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Movie Jail
Self-Titled EP
(Desperate Spirits Records)
March 3, 2023


Track Listing:

01. Stop At The Mark
02. Call The Neighbors (STREAM | VIDEO)
03. Porous Rock
04. Ship Dream
05. New Way To Walk

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Movie Jail | Live

03/04/2023: Lexington, KY @ The Green Lantern (Record Release)
03/22/2023: Lexington, KY @ WRFL 88.1FM (In Studio, Stream)
03/31/2023: Cincinnati, OH @ The Comet

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Movie Jail | About


“Movie Jail” is a phrase referring to unspoken sanctions imposed on a director after a career failure or refusal to join a lucrative project. One might assume a band bearing this name has rejected entertainment for its own sake, but the truth is a bit more complicated. Despite a noisy veneer, Movie Jail finds its center in an unabashed love of hooks, melodies, and solid grooves.

From the weird musical hinterlands that gave the world Slint, Hair Police, and Cage The Elephant, the Lexington, Kentucky-based five-piece Movie Jail offers further proof that college towns can provide fertile creative ground.

The group will release its self-titled debut EP on March 3, 2023 via Desperate Spirits Records. Mixed by John McEntire of Tortoise and featuring McEntire’s own vibraphone as accompaniment, the record brings to mind a post-rock band hired to play an airport lounge, trying to reconstruct decades of pop music based on memory alone.

Movie Jail is just as likely to cycle through secondhand jazz chords as to careen headlong into jittery new wave territory. The band’s first single, “Call The Neighbors,” (hear a sample now!) captures all these contradictions, opening with a volley of strident guitar and lyrical jabs at the bootstrap generation but secretly hoping to retreat to a hotel room for drinks and an afternoon nap.

According to the members of Movie Jail, “Call The Neighbors” is about “the tension between a generation that views work as inherently valuable and those who see it as a means to an end. It's a song about the joy of making questionable decisions i.e. ‘making snow angels in the middle of the road,’ as the songs opening line suggests.”

The debut self-titled EP by Lexington-based Movie Jail arrives March 3, 2023 preceded by the single and video “Call The Neighbors,” out now.

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Movie Jail | Links


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Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion | Contact

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