NOW:7" EP on Milsetone / Nervous Jerk, released June 2007, sold out. May be available through stores or online, otherwise no-go-zone.
NOW: 12" LP, 7 tracks, 25 mins, coming out through Siltbreeze Records May/June 2008, CD version being released in Australia through Nervous Jerk, out mid-April 2008. Recorded sometime last year.
Contact us: fabulousdiamonds@hotmail.com
Review of our new album from Rave Magazine
Fabulous Diamonds are difficult to review. On one hand I’m enamoured of their music-as-art, sonic impressionism – Jarrod Zlatic’s echoing electric organ and alto saxophone are gorgeous as they dawdle along the stark aural panorama, while Nisa Venerosa’s drums are heavy and steady without groove. On the other I find them a little stagnant, as though the Melbourne duo are no more than the sum of their parts. 7 Songs – for instance – is a lush example of DIY production (by My Disco’s Ben Andrews no less), heavily layered and delayed with underground precision. Yet the operational definition of the record is – as the name suggests – seven untitled tracks taken from the band’s 2007 performance repertoire, and the lack of concept is irksome. For despite the post-punk-era hallmarks of dilettantism and avoidance of rock & roll, the music doesn’t appear to be saying anything – the pair’s quaintly chiming vocals are minimal and repetitive. Perhaps that’s part of subverting mainstream culture – which is obsessed with ostensibly meaning something – but beauty for beauty’s sake seems too close to popular culture’s vacuous beginnings to be a conscious statement. What it leaves handsome, arrhythmic, cerebral music that barely engages the mind, let alone challenges it. The record still stands as clever work of exotic ear candy (which you should listen to), but it’s not subculture affirming. The tragedy is, it could have been.
your new recording is fucking gorgeous! please come and play at our where?house one day. that drum review is weird eh? i almost cringed when i first read it. scott should stick with footy on sundays. i don't think this writing thing is going to work out for him. where did all these fuckin' jocks come from all of a sudden? stay rad. much love and respect. nick.
Hey my lil Diamonds, are you all recovered and ready to go out for drinks soon? Maybe to Enid's? They have a drink called the Harrison which is quite refreshing.
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G'Day Fabulour Diamonds, How about that review above!!! I'm obsessed with it! I had to pause my KISS record in order to 100% concentrate on all the words. I did some research to fully understand the journalists perspective.
