Star Club West

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My Ill Women 00:00 Tools
Comme I Want 02:02 Tools
54 03:57 Tools
Bodylotion 02:39 Tools
We are open 03:18 Tools
have you ever been 03:29 Tools
Woody 03:25 Tools
Cut The Crap 03:25 Tools
You Can Only Think 03:25 Tools
I If I 03:25 Tools
We Circle Here 03:25 Tools
Fit The V 03:25 Tools
Tit City 04:01 Tools
Everyone I Know 03:25 Tools
No Soldier 03:25 Tools
I am human 04:01 Tools
Tia Falls 04:01 Tools
Who Are You 04:01 Tools
I Is Another 04:01 Tools
Finster Water 04:01 Tools
These Trucks 02:51 Tools
Don’T Wake Up Jamaica 02:51 Tools
Universe 02:51 Tools
What About That Lofi Ghost Track 04:00 Tools
it is working 02:51 Tools
Whatch Out Cause I’M Sweet 03:14 Tools
Porteng 03:14 Tools
Calvin Klein 04:00 Tools
Outro 04:00 Tools
What’S Aware 04:00 Tools
Autumn’S Here 04:00 Tools
Charly 01:49 Tools
Brilliant in our bites 04:37 Tools
chamonix 03:17 Tools
Replay 03:14 Tools
Are We Heavy 03:47 Tools
Audrey Blumenthal 05:52 Tools
Don't lose what you don't have 03:09 Tools
We Try To Have It All 04:41 Tools
Karma 05:27 Tools
Jack Herrer 03:47 Tools
It's a Quiet Morning 03:47 Tools
Rainbow is a sleeping bag 04:13 Tools
Linda Trip 03:23 Tools
Running on Falling Rope 04:41 Tools
I'm not really there 04:41 Tools
Klopje 04:00 Tools
Jacck Herrer 04:00 Tools
Charts & TV 01:56 Tools
The Whole Man Must Move At Once 01:56 Tools
Japanese Airwaves 01:56 Tools
Be Carefull, Be Carefull 00:00 Tools
Breathe With Your Hands 04:00 Tools
Disappear Into What If 03:35 Tools
Skiparadis Dadstein 01:56 Tools
It Irons in the Wash 01:56 Tools
How Nice You Drop By 01:56 Tools
What About The Tape 03:35 Tools
Fragment Drop 01:56 Tools
New life 00:00 Tools
Nick 03:35 Tools
Elliot Smith Songs 03:35 Tools
Indie Rockboy Dreams 03:35 Tools
Stereo Design 03:35 Tools
There Is Comfort 03:06 Tools
Please Be Quiet Now 03:35 Tools
Don´t Lose What You Don´t Have 03:06 Tools
Mr. Lover 03:35 Tools
Even Naar Boven 03:06 Tools
Spaniels 03:35 Tools
Enjoying The Elbow Room 03:35 Tools
Liposuction 03:35 Tools
Is It My Fiction 03:06 Tools
Don't Go 03:35 Tools
Teach Me Thy Way, Oh Lord 03:06 Tools
Zornik Youth 03:06 Tools
Hotel 03:06 Tools
I Could Die, Now What 03:06 Tools
Howie Rides 03:06 Tools
Single Malt 03:06 Tools
Riding Tiger 03:06 Tools
Ajar 03:06 Tools
Leave The Bar 02:26 Tools
Know Your Park 03:39 Tools
Oh Dry Blue Menthol 03:39 Tools
Do We Want to Be Rock 03:39 Tools
Soft Johnson 03:39 Tools
He Feels Dirty 03:39 Tools
don' t go 03:39 Tools
Yes I Will Yes 03:39 Tools
Moi moi 03:39 Tools
Puki Pooki 03:39 Tools
Bunny Times 03:39 Tools
Barely Sweet 06:08 Tools
Al Die Orbitalen 06:08 Tools
Laky Love 06:08 Tools
Touring Czech Republic With Gary Wilson 06:08 Tools
Roomprins Destiny 06:08 Tools
Primo 06:08 Tools
I Don’t Know Who You Think You Are 06:08 Tools
Zat Vergaderen 06:08 Tools
September 06:08 Tools
Leidinggevende 06:08 Tools
Don't Wake Up Jamaica 06:08 Tools
What's Aware 06:08 Tools
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Together with Wim van den Heuvel (bass) and Raf de Backer (drums), songwriter and singer/guitar player Nico Jacobs makes up the core of Star Club West. Their first EP ‘This is Howie’ was recorded on a low budget with a little help from friends like Elko Blijweert (Dead Man Ray), Tim Coenen (Admiral Freebee) and sound engineer Glenda Langue. This resulted in a tender record with dreamy instrumental passages as well as light-noisy escapades. The Critics loved ( J ) the record and Star Club West played a few times to support My Morning Jacket and Frank Black, and went on a mini-tour in Germany with Wolf Colonel. About their first record: ‘Star Club West display a penchant for languidly delivered vocals, piano-tinged ballads, melancholic lyrics, and guitars that gently weep. They have plenty to recommend them, from melodic opener 'Fragment Drop', interspersed with short bursts of distorted guitar, to 'Enjoying the Elbow Room', the acoustic soother that closes the album. Instrumentally, 'Stereo Design' has its feet firmly rooted in Pavement territory, yet with a decidedly un-Pavement-like level of lyrical clarity, evinced by the opening line "This is the sound of a broken wing in a crash." The same emotional frankness can be heard on 'How Nice You Drop By', which is sweetly reminiscent of the original 1974 version of Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day'. Star Club West exist in the twilight zone that lies somewhere between evening and night, an all too brief period of time that brings with it a sensation of tranquillity and calm’ by TJ Hatton for Kinda Music Meanwhile, their second album – Oh dry blue menthol – is ready. On this record Elko Blijweert, Rudy Trouvé (o.a. Dead Man Ray), Joris Caluwaerts (Franco Saint de Backer) and Sigrid van Roosendael (Lionel Horowitz) also play along. This time, the band went to a studio to record the album, which made their sound even richer. It was recorded and mixed November 2001. Patrick Delabie and Glenda Langue handled all the technical stuff and Rudy, Elko and Star Club West produced it. Oh dry blue menthol is a subtle, sensitive record. Thanks to variation in song structure, atmosphere and arrangements, the record reveals new things,every time you listen to it. It is like listening to melancholy translated into melodies supported by a relaxed rhythm section. Sometimes, the record will remind you of the noisy exploits of the early Yo la Tengo, the cosiness of Pavement, the modesty of Palace and Spain or the sweet jazz of Chet Baker. Songs that gently ride the indie sound of the nineties (Matador, City Slang en Domino). Countrypop, rich and subtly arranged by adding an almost silent touch of piano now and then, an expressive lyric or a careful stroke of drums. Everything to serve the right atmosphere, the atmosphere to serve your ears. Their third album 'Number Why' takes you back to the heydays of indierock (think Matador, City Slang). Pure and unpolished popsongs (think Pavement, The Shins) get immersed in guitarambient (think Yo La Tengo), indietronix (think Notwist), altcountry-stylings (think Wilco) or laidback jazz (think Chet Baker). . In It all happens on 'Number Why', but well dosed. In the end, 'Number Why' is a solid collection of dreamy laidback popsongs to hum along, but adventurous enough to keep Star Club West away from chartsucces. You can listen to albumopener Don't Go on. www.myspace.com/toutpartout Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.