dog eyes

August 16, 2024

holy friend, the new album from dog eyes, arrives today

Today marks the release of holy friend, the latest full-length from Oakland duo dog eyes. It’s a project that overflows with warmth and compassion. Mini-epics of lo-fi bedroom pop ambition, sleepy Americana and studies in slowcore abound across the ten tracks here. The band celebrated earlier this week with the release of a music video for final single, “drive,” a hushed indie folk number that arrives early on the album. A hometown East Bay Express profile landed earlier this week ahead of last night’s release show at Bottom of the Hill in SF.

Join us in welcoming this wonderful record into the world.

01 crush
02 firsts
03 rusty, my dog
04 drive
05 fair
06 moment
07 nothing at all
08 go together
09 ties
10 holy friend
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Jordana

August 6, 2024

Jordana announces new album Lively Premonition

Today Jordana announces her new album, Lively Premonition. If you’ve been following the 23-year-old Maryland-born songwriter for long you know to expect the unexpected. When she dropped “We Get By” earlier this summer it hinted at a new direction, and today’s single “Like A Dog” all but confirms it. Having relocated to the Golden State in 2023, this is unequivocally Jordana’s LA record – sailing a glitter covered yacht right through Laurel Canyon.

“Like A Dog” lands today with a truly wonderful music video. Jordana reuintes with “We Get By” director Otium to transform herself into a literal dog (watch for the iphone screen cameo of her own pup Ducky) awaiting her hit-making mama’s return from a very cursed day in the studio.

The first pressing of Lively Premonition is available for pre-order now on serenity blue vinyl everywhere you get records & limited edition opaque blue vinyl over on Bandcamp. Album art, tracklist and pre-order options available below.

Lively Premonition Tracklist:

01 We Get By
02 Like A Dog
03 Heart You Hold
04 This Is How I Know
05 Multitudes of Mystery
06 Raver Girl
07 Wrong Love
08 Anything For You
09 The One I Know
10 Your Story’s End

Pre-Orders:

Sex Week

July 22, 2024

Sex Week release “Kid Muscle” single

Last month Brooklyn duo Sex Week announced their self-titled debut EP. Today they return with another taster from the release: “Kid Muscle.” It’s a slowcore slowburn, replete with the band’s quickly-materializing calling card of hushed whispers and submerged shrieks clinging to the underbelly of a patient pop song. The track is paired with a video set in a rainy black box, with Sex Week’s live band performing an off-kilter, soaking wet version of the song while Pearl writhes, prances, and bewitches the band and the viewer.

Reminder that the limited edition CD version of the EP is available at Bandcamp right now.

In other news, the band will be playing a handful of NYC shows over the coming weeks – starting tonight at Elsewhere in Brooklyn supporting Pile. They’ll celebrate the release of the short-player at Union Pool in August with Why Bonnie? All dates & tickets over on their artist page.

More soon.

dog eyes

July 16, 2024

dog eyes announce holy friend, with release of new single “moment”

dog eyes, the lo-fi Oakland duo of Davis Leach and Haily Firstman, want to talk about friendship. 

holy friend, the pair’s sophomore release – announced today & their first for Grand Jury Music– is a gentle 10-song ode to all types of relationships, an examination of the effect we have on the most important people in our lives.  It’s a cornucopia of hushed & humble mini-epics. Across the record, there’s ethereal twee on “fair,” patient slowcore on “rusty, my dog,”  mossy indie folk on “drive”  and economical bedroom pop on “moment,” available everywhere today. 

As Firstman puts it, “the ‘Holy Friend’ as a concept, creates an ideal person from scraps of perfection/the divine we find in flawed places. Hopeful, yet grounded, the “Holy Friend” is a testament to the idea that age brings nuance. Something bigger than the sum of its parts that helps guide us, rooted and reflected in the nuance of friendship.”

The band wasn’t nearly as conceptual with their debut, good, proper send off, which they self-released in 2022. “Our vision for ‘good, proper sendoff’ was a lot more pared down and simple,” says Leach. Where good proper send off was a record filled with field recordings, fuzzy radio static and fragile folk, holy friend levels up the ambition and expands the sonic horizons. On August 16th, Grand Jury will release that document, a limited edition cassette featuring holy friend on the A-side and good, proper send off on the B-side.

01 crush
02 firsts
03 rusty, my dog
04 drive
05 fair
06 moment
07 nothing at all
08 go together
09 ties
10 holy friend
[PRE-ORDER CASSETTE]

Sex Week

June 24, 2024

Sex Week announce self-titled debut EP

Today Sex Week unveil their new song “Cockpit,” a terminally climactic masterwork that is the centerpiece of their freshly-announced self-titled EP.

The seven-song release is coming on August 30th. Pre-saves and a CD pre-order are available now over on Bandcamp. The short-player features previous released singles “Toad Mode” and “Angel Blessings,” alongside a collection of nightmarish pop and surprisingly dynamic slowcore the band has been honing over the past few months.


Pre-Save / Pre-Order

01 Bluff
02 Shady Sadie
03 Angel Blessings
04 Cockpit
05 Kid Muscle
06 Naked
07 Toad Mode

More soon.

Jordana

June 17, 2024

Jordana returns with “We Get By”

“I don’t think I’ll ever settle on a specific sound. I’m just a chameleon.”

True words from our very own Jordana Nye. So it should come as no surprise that her thrilling new Emmett Kai-produced single, “We Get By,” is a rollicking golden folk epic sprinkled with shimmering yacht rock glitter. The standalone left-turn seemingly ushers in a new Laurel Canyon era for Jordana, who in between tours with Local Natives, Remi Wolf, TV Girl & Wallows, has been working on material with Kai since 2023. The Otium-directed video is a delight, cycling through vignettes of a day in the life of our violin-playing protagonist.

There’ll be more to share soon. Stay tuned.

dog eyes

May 28, 2024

dog eyes release new single “rusty, my dog”

dog eyes are back today with a new single, “rusty, my dog.”

It’s a daydream-y slowcore song that calmly floats on a gentle breeze. “Matching the minimalist bedroom pop and unexpected existentialism of Hovvdy’s early work with the surreal tinge of @, the track is another promising indication of what dog eyes’ Grand Jury debut will have in store,” said FLOOD Mag in their premiere this morning.

The duo sums up the single as “a grumbling, slow-and-steady meditation about Martin, our favorite dog. While light-hearted and sweet, it sends us off with chilling mantras like: ‘I don’t exist outside of his big ears,’ and ‘I’m not whole when you’re not around.’”.

The song follows “fair,” which was paired with our signing announcement last month via Paste Magazine , who praised it for being “a green-as-grass folk track with cosmic vocal harmonies that sound like acid-covered flannel shirts come alive.”

Both songs are from a larger project that will be announced soon. In other news, the band just announced an upcoming show at San Francisco’s Bottom of the Hill on August 15th. Tickets available here.

Samia

May 11, 2024

Grand Jury turns 10, Samia celebrates with Twin Peaks cover

This year marks 10 years in business for Grand Jury Music.

For seven of those years, Samia has been releasing music via our little record label. To celebrate the anniversary, we’ve asked a few artists new and old across the roster to cover their favorite songs from the catalog.

When approached, Samia immediately selected “Making Breakfast” from Twin Peaks’ touchstone 2014 release, Wild Onion. It was the first release on Grand Jury, and officially turns 10 this August.

“Wild Onion was like a lightning strike of a record,” says Samia. “And Making Breakfast is just a perfectly-written song, painfully simple and effortlessly cool…I hope we did it justice.”

There’ll be more decade-capping celebrations to come later this year. In the meantime, catch Samia on the road opening for Bleachers beginning later this week.

dog eyes

April 23, 2024

NEW SIGNING: dog eyes

We try to listen to every demo submission we ever get. But over the past ten years, we’ve never signed a band out of the info@grandjurymusic.com pile. Until now.

Today we couldn’t be happier that we opened the email from Oakland’s dog eyes – the lo-fi duo of Davis Leach and Hailey Firstman. Their first Grand Jury single, which follows their 2022 debut album a good proper send off, is the playfully off-kilter “fair.” It’s anchored by a hooky bassline and a warbly acoustic guitar jangle in the verses, but kicks into a beautiful second gear with choruses of ethereal twee that find the middle ground between K Records and Slumberland, coordinates on the musical map we’d never really thought to visit before.

Paste premiered the song & video above this morning, calling the song “a green-as-grass folk track with cosmic vocal harmonies that sound like acid-covered flannel shirts come alive. It’s a truly delightful sound to behold, as dog eyes reckon with a relationships and friendships now-separated but, in the eyes of hope, never fully surrendered.”

We’ll have plenty more from dog eyes soon. For now, enjoy!

 

Sex Week

April 15, 2024

NEW SIGNING: Sex Week

Today we welcome the duo of Pearl Amanda Dickson and Richard Orofino – aka Sex Week – to the Grand Jury family.

We stumbled over their first single “Toad Mode” in November of last year and it immediately charmed us. Languid slowcore with a touch of levity – think Bedhead or Pinback minus the tendencies toward self-seriousness. Little did we know what more lurked beneath…

Today, paired with our signing announcement, is a new single called “Angel Blessings.” Where “Toad Mode” was playful and patient, the latest Sex Week offering is dark and insistent. From the jump it pokes and prods, and its INLAND EMPIRE-inspired video does the same. Stark blacks and reds match the song’s mood, and in its back half you’re treated to a hallmark of the new music Dickson & Orofino are working on, the bewitching doubled vocal of Pearl, one performing a distant black metal scream, the other whispering softly in your ear. It’s very, very good.

Long story short: we’re terribly excited. And we hope you are too. Read more about them over on their Artist Page.

Welcome home, Sex Week.