Nite Jewel

From: Drowned in Sound

Los Angeles native Ramona Gonzalez is the composer, arranger and songwriter behind Nite Jewel. Her past lies in multimedia video and sound installations, collaborations with members of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, and a philosophy degree at Occidental College. Her present involves sketching vaporous outlines of pop songs that are smothered in a glassy patina that crackles and blisters under the tape hiss of Gonzalez’s trusty eight-track. It’s an odd, disconcerting contrast, where the shiny parts of pop are expertly slotted together, only to be obfuscated by vocals rendered cloudy and indecipherable via a combination of lo-fi production values and great swells of bass muscling up into the mix to muffle the sheen.

"What Did You Say" has quite a memorizing hook accompanied by an undeniably seductive vocal track that let's you melt into your headphones. Along with future boogie beatmaker, Dam-Funk, Nite Jewel is emerging as one of LA's brightest new stars.

Someone needs to bring this girl to Detroit!