Well I’ve been back on the west coast of America now for a couple weeks after the UK tour and a great week spent wandering around Brooklyn NY which included a really cool show at my new favorite bookstore in the city Housing Works. Me and mine drove up to Portland OR from Sacramento and after a few days of feverishly hunting around town we’ve found a place to call home. I’ve been living out of a suitcase now for nearly a year and as much as I like touring it will be nice in between tours not to hit the Folks up for a coach to sleep on and I can finally set up my beloved home studio again and start hammering out some new songs for the next album. Time to start imagining that next chapter, lots of ideas brewing around, i’ll keep you posted on the process.

Oh yes, I have single coming out on Monday in the UK. In fact it’s my very first single from the
new album and practically of my life. It’s a double A side of “Out Come the Wolves and Zero Integrity”.
I even convinced my record company to press up some Vinyl 7inches (just like mom used to make)
and we’ve sprinkled them like easter eggs for hard core music fans to hunt down across the UK
in indie shops and hmvs. There’s not a lot of them out there so if you want one of these I’d make a move.

For the rest of us you can also get the single digitally from itunes…
Here’s a slightly cheeky idea-
If you already own my album and want to turn your friends onto my music
you can “gift” the single from iTunes to as many people as you like. It’s a cool way
of helping to spread the word click here to gift this single
and it would be very sweet of you I would think! ; )
Have a wonderful day and weekend!
jg x

Here’s a nice review of the new single from “This is Fake DIY”

Jacob Golden - Out Come The Wolves

Artist: Jacob Golden

Rating: 4/5

Daintily piecing together a florid yet sorrowful collage of sounds, ‘Out Come the Wolves’ is a graceful example of that fashionable sphere of genre-robbing musical hybridity. Swathed in a phantasmagorical mist, the track, taken from Golden’s new release, ‘Revenge Songs’, would not seem out of place on a fantasy score, though its numerous references to modern culture prevent it, happily, from being swallowed by fancy.

Wonderfully sombre from beginning to end, the listener is entranced into an intense head-trip where ‘the Dalai Lama and Quasimoto hand in hand step off the Karmic wheel’ and cavort with James Brown and an army of ants. Such bewildered lyrics which rarely come together are salvaged by the backbone of Golden’s confident strumming, imbuing the track with what can only be described as extreme anxiety, which bizarrely appears to work in his favour.

Golden is Jeff Buckley for the faithless generation; a solemn, yet no less inventive Jeffrey Lewis. Using little more than a weeping guitar and hauntingly wistful vocals, ‘Out Come the Wolves’ cuts and sticks the humble debris of Golden’s imagination to form a rich patchwork of sounds and sympathies. Misery has never been so sexy.

‘Out Come The Wolves’ is released as a single through Echo on 3rd March 2008.

Emmy Watts
www.thisisfakediy.co.uk