{"title":"Joan Of Arc","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoan Of Arc is an indie\/experimental outfit hailing from Chicago, IL. Formed in 1996 by former members of Cap'n Jazz, including Tim Kinsella, Mike Kinsella, and Sam Zurick, along with Erik Bocek and Jeremy Boyle. After some lineup changes and side projects, the band split in 2001 but was resurrected in 2003 by Tim Kinsella with Sam Zurick returning. Since then, Joan Of Arc has seen a rotating cast of musicians, including appearances by Mike Kinsella and Todd Mattei.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInfluenced by bands like Cap'n Jazz and Make Believe, Joan Of Arc's sound is characterized by their experimental approach to indie rock. Their music combines intricate melodies with unconventional song structures to create a unique sonic experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith similarities to other influential bands such as Braid and The Promise Ring, Joan Of Arc has carved out their own niche in the indie music scene. Their discography showcases their evolution as artists over the years while maintaining their distinct sound.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-window-and-a-mirror","title":"A Window and A Mirror","description":"\u003cp\u003eI have no neat and tidy way to summarize Joan of Arc. The group's obdurate dedication to shape-shifting reinvention charmed and frustrated in equal measure, and often simultaneously. Any conversation of who or what Joan of Arc is must also consider what the band is not—beyond a unit that avoided convention. Only one person, bandleader Tim Kinsella, remained in Joan of Arc from its 1996 debut to its final days in 2020. For nearly a quarter century, Joan of Arc maintained a fluid lineup that drew from a multitude of subversive Chicago music communities. Every musician and behind-the-scenes collaborator that played a role in Joan of Arc (a number that exceeds 100) influenced the band's direction and character. All the while, Tim helped maintain Joan of Arc's singular identity throughout all the shifts. No two Joan of Arc albums sound identical, but if you listen close enough, you trace ideas that took root on one LP and blossomed in the next. This book expands and deepens the story of Joan of Arc's first five albums (its Jade Tree period) with archival photos and pages ripped from Tim's journals, presented alongside Tim's recollections and a compact early history. This book comes with a live recording of the one and only show by Red Blue Yellow the band Tim started just before Joan of Arc presented here on a 7\", along with download code for a couple hundred bonus tracks from the group's archives. 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Live, old jams and new tracks have often melted and mutated, members jumping from instrument to instrument in between or in the middle of songs, all stasis discarded. And now, a series of nearly a cappella performances from Kinsella’s fellow vocalist Melina Ausikaitis, debuted live by Joan of Arc over the last several years, has become the backbone of their new LP, \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e. Thoroughly of the band’s lineage, Ausikaitis’ lyrics are equally measured with wit, despair and stubborn perseverance. Like the album’s striking hand drawn cover art, the music inside is often spare; anthemic highs ring from elegiac lows and back again. At times, Ausikaitis sings in an earnestly tangy and lovely flat twang redolent of the midwest, before screwing her voice up into a fearsome roar. Sometimes her voice is electronically distorted, like bells in the sky, into ringing eternity. Remarkably, so much of the cluttered sound of earlier Joan of Arc LPs has largely fallen away on 1984, as has Kinsella’s voice. At first it’s genuinely shocking. 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As prolific of a band as they have been, none of the albums sounded the same, none of the albums imagined themselves as too big to fail in the name of trying something new. They always felt like more of a collective than anything else. A smattering of gifted contributors, fighting their way through their own creative whims. Their shows, a type of controlled chaos. A chaos that required a close and gentle ear, or else one might miss the delicate daggers of lyric woven into the walls of sound, the walls of slow movement. It is good to determine your own endings; for yourself, but also for the sake of whatever comes next. To have the band going out on their own terms, still steeped in their own sound—melancholic, but biting; cynical, but also witty; a sonic forest that is both comfortable, but also a little treacherous. We are used to mourning moments like this, letting go of a beloved band. But a listener can hear in this album that these people still love making music together. They’re still excited by how far they can push each other creatively. And to know that and still decide that you have given all you can give as a band is a real gift. It is better this way, to lay a project down at the feet of fans, and listeners, and have it treated with joy, and not sadness. Musicians owe growth to themselves, they owe exploration, and excitement, and eager noise-making to themselves. Whatever fans get out of that, at the end of the day, is something we should all be grateful for. 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