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Kind of Lacuna Coil only less metal and without the nu-metal hippety hop rapping or Lacrimossa without the operatics
Jackdaw with Crowbar
A slightly funky 80s Industrial approach. According to their EP they still use films live which I suspect means in their day they did a pretty mean multi-media presentation.
Imagine Talking Heads meet funky industrial. Possibly the only Industrial band to be based in Leamington Spa. Seem a very English version of their USA equivalents if you can guess what I mean
Jack Frost
Not the Jack
Frost that are the Church spin-off but their “elsewhere” LP released on CCP
records [at least in
Jack Frost
(this is the one with the bloke out of the Church)
Quality 80s alt-pop rock with (unsurprisingly) a hint of the Church. Even a hint of INXS which makes you think this stuff is innate to the Aussies. (and a bit Lloyd Cole.)
Jack off Jill
Noisy guitar punk by ladies with black hair and blacker
eyelines. Imagine Hole meets Siouxsie
Jakob
Might be one of two this lot. Very noisy full band stuff but pretty melodic. Kind of trad 80s industrial stuff.
Jarboe
Strange. Slightly avant garde experimental but with hints of
World Serpent without
the more medieval/traditional folk
feel of most of their output. Album 13 masks does show quite a wide
range of influences and styles that may be the point of the title.
Jessica’s Crime
Quite
an element of trad guitar Goth but perhaps more high octane than some.
“Psychosemantic,” is OK but I’m never going to recommend it for awards.
To be fair “Angels,” is pretty good with a cool vibe going.
Jesus Fix
“fear of sleep,” has really kind of grown on me. Reminds me a bit of the catchier end of ENDG. Proper guitar Goth with catchy choruses and everything. Possibly entirely played by real musicians on real instruments!
Jesus Rodriguez
Really big sounding guitar driven Goth. Possibly the first act, although correct me if I am wrong, that seems to be influenced by my beloved Long March. Albeit if the singer had a prescription for Capston Full Strength.
Jet
Noir
Very
Phat and dancey. Imagine Ofra Haza singing for Oceanic.
Jih
Scottish Goth band who have embraced a very Bunnymen inspired 80s guitar band sound with some horns. To give them credit they had strings, which has to be a plus point. I kind of think I should love them but they just seem average.
Jnr Mansion Slags
About
as crap as their name suggests really. A kind of sub-Crazyhead grebo
growl. Crop up on the HOD magazine 7” along with Creaming Jesus
Joolz
Everyone’s favourite punk/goth poetess possibly EMIs only alt-poet in residence. Released two excellent albums, Hex and Weird Sisters and the brilliant 12” “Protections,” which was the best non- NMA New Model Army twelve inch ever released featuring musical assistance from long term partner Slade the Leveller.
Found belated success as a thriller writer with a string of critically acclaimed novels.
Judgement of Paris
I
would describe 90% of JoPs “Conversion,” as nice dark ambient and would
possibly go as far as to say the goth “Land f Nod,” although I’ve
probably ascribed that moniker elsewhere. But then puncturing the 18
odd tracks you get a really bicely constructed proper song. The more
ethereal ones with vocals sound almost cetic (it seems about 60/40 in
favour of instrumentals)
“Thirteen Months,” really reminds me of
Tull but I can’t quite place how. Most commercial sounding track
“Spheres of Influence,” sounds like James meet Clannad.
Judith
One of my favourite bands of the late 90s and early millennium and one of the few that I would go out of my way to track down new releases. Judith are in a way nothing out of the ordinary whilst still mesmerising and enchanting at the same time. Early releases “La Reveuse and Fohn,” were near perfect although later releases struggled to live up to early promise.
The main man apparently used to be in Requiem in White but I am unable to give you an opinion on them as on the rare occasion one of their LPs appears on the net it is up for a small fortune.
Prone to cropping up on Neue Asthetic Mulitmedia compilations.
Jyrki 69
Jyrki is one of the 69 eyes I believe hence his surname a la Johnny Violent of Ultraviolence or Nik Fiend of ASF who he alludes to musically occasionally. Nick not Johnny but more often it is a brooding Garden of Delight style epic he is going for perhaps channeling his inner Eldritch at the Sisters less rocky moments.