INDIAN JEWELRY PREPS NEW ALBUM, TOTALED

Indian Jewelry is a van gang from Houston, Texas. I to the J. Blood on the streets.

TOTALED is their latest record, and their third album for We Are Free/Monitor Records.

TOTALED is weird, dirty and to the point, a direct line to the one true Indian Jewelry under Heaven.

No genre, no rules, no help.

IJ hasn't turned away from cracked cymbals, feedback, and burning amps. They're running them through more fx.

Erika Thrasher and Tex Kerschen wrote and recorded the record in 2009 in Houston and Los Angeles. TOTALED is the sum of hundreds of shows on the road and hundreds of hours under headphones. The songs were developed with Richard Durham, Mary Sharpe, and Rodney Rodriguez.

TOTALED is a crash course in sound + vision. In it is the swamp electro of 2003's We Are The Wild Beast, the nightmare throb of 2005's Invasive Exotics, and the sonic angel dream of 2008's Free Gold. This is an encounter with the true and the truly fucked up... woozy and heartpounding and subject to double-vision.

It's like arriving to the beach, headspun and weightless after a sleepless night, only to remember that a hurricane has come and wiped almost everything away. Hard grass crawls back over the improvised dunes, a few men fish in the surf, and Tejano music plays from the speakers of a parked pick-up.

If you're hearing funk, that's because they spend their time at home playing in Houston's Prince cover band 'Diamonds+Pearls.'

If you're hearing anything else, that's the sound of Houston underwater.

INDIAN JEWELRY
03/12 Denton, TX NX35
03/20 Austin, TX SXSW / Cheer Up Charlie's AKA Ms. Bea's
03/21 Monterrey, Mexico MtyMx
04/23 Austin, TX The Mohawk / Austin Psych Fest 3
04/24 Norman, OK Norman Fest

Indian Jewelry
TOTALED
(We Are Free)
Street Date: May 11, 2010
Oceans
Look Alive
Lapis Lazuli
Excessive Moonlight
Sirens
Vison
Tono Bungay
+++++++
Simulation
Diamond Things
Never Been Better
Parlous Siege & Chapel
Heaven's World Destroyer
Touching the Roof of the Sun
Dog Days