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Recorded live on opening night of the 2011 Chicago International Movies and Music Festival,  this is the latest unexpected turn for the band, Joan of Arc have composed a dark, flowering sonic counterpart to the film's grim subject matter (which is a rather haunting depiction of savage religious persecution).\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eReleased on vinyl and digital only, \"Joan of Arc Presents: Joan of Arc\" is intended to be synced manually to the film ala Dark Side of the Moon\/Wizard of Oz.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eAvailable in three extremely limited pressings:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e175 hand-numbered copies on white vinyl  [sold out]\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e175 hand-numbered copies on black and white split color vinyl  [sold out]\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e175 hand-numbered copies on blood red vinyl  [sold out]\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- Google Code for Joan of Arc Remarketing List --\u003e\n\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nvar google_conversion_id = 1039808125;\nvar google_conversion_language = \"en\";\nvar google_conversion_format = \"3\";\nvar google_conversion_color = \"ffffff\";\nvar google_conversion_label = \"YxhyCMvJzgIQ_ezo7wM\";\nvar google_conversion_value = 0;\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/conversion.js\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\n\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003cnoscript\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display:inline;\"\u003e\n\u003cimg height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"border-style:none;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/www.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/conversion\/1039808125\/?value=0\u0026amp;label=YxhyCMvJzgIQ_ezo7wM\u0026amp;guid=ON\u0026amp;script=0\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/noscript\u003e","brand":"Joan of Arc","offers":[{"title":"Digital (instant MP3 download)","offer_id":3741080449,"sku":"JNR088_digital","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Vinyl + MP3 (black\/white 2xLP, limited to 175 hand-numbered copies)","offer_id":3315926785,"sku":"JNR088_LP_656605773315","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Vinyl + MP3 (white 2xLP, limited to 175 hand-numbered copies)","offer_id":3315926849,"sku":"JNR088_white-LP_656605773315","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Vinyl + MP3 (blood red 2xLP, limited to 175 hand-numbered copies)","offer_id":3315927041,"sku":"JNR088_red-LP_656605773315","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0844\/5451\/products\/albums-joan-of-arc-presents-joan-of-arc-1.jpeg?v=1478201161"},{"product_id":"pine-cone","title":"Pine Cone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Written, Recorded, and Edited at home over an intense two week period in isolation meditating on a Pinecone, Pine Cone is a (mostly) instrumental sonic analogy of the form of a Pinecone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA simple set of prompts guided its development - more than two instruments at one time would always be an exception, nothing repeats without variation unless that is the totality of its function, the fades, blurs and cuts that link its sections are as much its point as any instrument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome neighbors dropped by to check up on me and graciously played along: Matthew Clark (White \/ Light), Todd Mattei (Lites Alive), and Jonathan Van Herik (Disappears).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's been twenty years since I have lived within a dozen miles of anywhere I might see a Pinecone. 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Richard Brautigan, Mark Twain, Elizabeth Taylor, and Assata Shakur might visit his lyrics, but it’s the band itself that contains multitudes. Throughout Joan of Arc, Kinsella and his bandmates have hewn together a true artistic democracy—some two dozen members over the years—to confront the darkening political realities and interpersonal mysteries of our time. Like their namesake—a donee of revelation who became a fierce holy warrior, only to be discarded by a king and burned at the stake as a heretic—Joan of Arc has inspired their share of true believers and dismayed legions of skeptics. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eEver since Joan of Arc's most recent lineup— Kinsella, Theo Katsaounis, Melina Ausikaitis, Bobby Burg, and Jeremy Boyle— congealed and began playing shows locally in 2015, going on to record and release their most recent album ‘He’s Got The Whole This Land Is Your Land In His Hands’, via Joyful Noise on the day Donald Trump was inaugurated, fans have witnessed an even more radical democracy at work. ‘Your War (I’m One Of You): 20 Years of Joan of Arc’, a full-length documentary from Vice’s Noisey, was an initial window into the band’s generous collaborative spirit and the far-flung, improvised creation of that new LP. 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, ‘1984’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRemarkably, 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. But the songs here are a revelation, as profound and plainspoken as parables. Thoroughly of the band’s lineage, Ausikaitis’ lyrics are equally measured with wit, despair and stubborn perseverance. There is awkward sex at Grandma’s house. There are kids in the snow wearing cop sunglasses and the crumbling psychic defenses of childhood memories. There are A-frame houses and white horses. There are trucks losing their brakes on the hill at the end of the street. There are heaps of thoroughly useful self-help advice (“stop chicken-shittin’ all over your life” has become a personal mantra.). 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. On “Vermont Girl”, I’m not entirely sure she isn’t purposefully doing an impression of her bandmate just for the hell of it, and it cracks me up every time I hear it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWhenever I’ve decided I have this band pegged, they’ve challenged and rewarded me: with a score for a silent film, in a half-hour minimalist cover of the Beatles’ “Helter Skelter” pounding through an art museum, by a performative collaboration with a theatre group, and one particularly memorable Empty Bottle show where they uncorked volleys of catastrophic EDM at a crowd that seemed to melt into the walls. More often than not, it seems like the less I’ve expected from them going to a show or tucking into a new album, the more I’ve received. The more I’ve seen others scratch their heads at this band’s steady defiance of expectations, the more Joan of Arc has made me see their artistic wisdom. On ’1984’, they’ve done it again, and I suspect they’ll continue to soundtrack my life beyond these past two confounding decades. These days there are too few bands that make me feel less alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eYou tried to be a person with no problems, but there is still time for you to get on Joan of Arc’s one way train and ride with me to their pyre of righteous, pure democracy. Put on your headphones and fire up ‘1984’ and remember yourself as a child, when your only tattoo was the memory of the first time you saw your mother cry written deep upon your heart. Listen: there’s no need to close your personal hole. It’s a place where only you can go. You got your head shaved cuz of the lice. Your collared shirts have the bottoms tucked inside. All of your life you’ve been eating shit, but look at us now. 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Drawing from this source material, Kinsella and Pulse employed a sort-of literary mash-up, scrambling content and structure into a thoroughly new product. “We might take the form of an Eskimo genesis myth, but use words from Anaïs Nin,” Kinsella explains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere’s audible chemistry in Good Fuck’s sound; Kinsella’s extensive history in genre-pushing rock and roll (Joan of Arc, Cap’n Jazz) is strikingly complimented by Pulse’s fresh ear for minimalist electro sounds. Kinsella and Pulse achieved complete artistic symbiosis in composing Good Fuck’s music. “To a large degree we don't even know who programmed what beat, and who programmed what synth line,” Kinsella reflects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKinsella says he and Pulse were “stunned” by the results of their collaboration, but their process wasn’t perfect. “Of course there were snags, technological and psychological. And of course we threw a good amount away. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf there is anything clear to me right now, it is that our endings are not always our endings. It is the summer of 2020 as I write this, and I didn’t know that the last time I walked out of a crowded music venue in the late winter of this year would be the last time for what feels like ages. It is good to determine your own endings, I think. For yourself, but also for the sake of whatever comes next. What I always loved about Joan of Arc, and what I still love about them now, is that the project of the band itself always felt like an experimental intersection of its members interests. 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. 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