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Tele Novella's macabre pop
...tastes like Halloween candy
In order to enjoy Tele Novella at home, you, too, need to be into the 1960s. Their releases so far have been on vinyl 45s or cassette tapes.
Another band that’s in lust with the pop music of the 1960s. And why not? It was good material, and most all of it distinctive. Tele Novella has been compared to the girl groups of that era, but I suspect that the critics who went in that direction probably haven’t really heard very much ’60s girl-group music. What I hear in Tele Novella is that surf-hotrod-rock-novelty sound. Granted, the band is fronted by Natalie Gordon, and she has just the slightest Nancy Sinatra shape to her vocals, but that’s about it.
Video:
Tele Novella
...in concert in Houston, August 2014
The band’s management, on the other hand, pimps them as macabre-pop: “the sonic equivalent of Halloween candy.” Lyrics like “Add the barley/ add the rye over the fire/ stir and let it lay in the magic of the pale moonlight” sort of furthers that image. On Facebook, the band posed in monster makeup and listed their contact number as 666-666-6666.
But Tele Novella’s Hail Mary startup is a better story. In 2012, Gordon moved from Sacramento to Austin, Texas, with her band, a drum-and-guitar duo called Agent Ribbons. She booked a slot at the annual music-industry showcase SXSW, but the band came apart. At the last minute, she pulled her boyfriend, bassist Jason Chronis, and members from Voxtrot together, wrote new songs, and did the gig as Tele Novella. Both Paste and Spin magazine’s critics were enthusiastic, Tele Novella got a record deal, and they stayed out on the road, for that is how a band earns money in the digital age.
Past Event
Tele Novella and Sol Orchid
- Thursday, December 1, 2016, 9 p.m.
- Blonde Bar, 1808 West Washington Street, San Diego
- 21+
But in order to enjoy Tele Novella at home, you, too, need to be into the 1960s. Their releases so far have been on vinyl 45s or cassette tapes. But it’s worth the step backward in technology to hear that tight old reverb and twang around surprisingly intuitive words like, “I never thought that I would find/ All of my desires/ Were none of mine.”
Sol Orchid and Summer Knowledge also perform.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Tele Novella's macabre pop
...tastes like Halloween candy
Tele Novella's macabre pop
...tastes like Halloween candy
In order to enjoy Tele Novella at home, you, too, need to be into the 1960s. Their releases so far have been on vinyl 45s or cassette tapes.
Another band that’s in lust with the pop music of the 1960s. And why not? It was good material, and most all of it distinctive. Tele Novella has been compared to the girl groups of that era, but I suspect that the critics who went in that direction probably haven’t really heard very much ’60s girl-group music. What I hear in Tele Novella is that surf-hotrod-rock-novelty sound. Granted, the band is fronted by Natalie Gordon, and she has just the slightest Nancy Sinatra shape to her vocals, but that’s about it.
Video:
Tele Novella
...in concert in Houston, August 2014
The band’s management, on the other hand, pimps them as macabre-pop: “the sonic equivalent of Halloween candy.” Lyrics like “Add the barley/ add the rye over the fire/ stir and let it lay in the magic of the pale moonlight” sort of furthers that image. On Facebook, the band posed in monster makeup and listed their contact number as 666-666-6666.
But Tele Novella’s Hail Mary startup is a better story. In 2012, Gordon moved from Sacramento to Austin, Texas, with her band, a drum-and-guitar duo called Agent Ribbons. She booked a slot at the annual music-industry showcase SXSW, but the band came apart. At the last minute, she pulled her boyfriend, bassist Jason Chronis, and members from Voxtrot together, wrote new songs, and did the gig as Tele Novella. Both Paste and Spin magazine’s critics were enthusiastic, Tele Novella got a record deal, and they stayed out on the road, for that is how a band earns money in the digital age.
Past Event
Tele Novella and Sol Orchid
- Thursday, December 1, 2016, 9 p.m.
- Blonde Bar, 1808 West Washington Street, San Diego
- 21+
But in order to enjoy Tele Novella at home, you, too, need to be into the 1960s. Their releases so far have been on vinyl 45s or cassette tapes. But it’s worth the step backward in technology to hear that tight old reverb and twang around surprisingly intuitive words like, “I never thought that I would find/ All of my desires/ Were none of mine.”
Sol Orchid and Summer Knowledge also perform.
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