New German Cinema – Pain Will Polish Me [Colored Vinyl] (Grn)

Stormy and cathartic dark-pop gems, wrote Gorilla vs Bear about Jessica Weisss early solo work. The voice and songwriter of Fear of Men, she carries that same lyrical precision and emotional intensity into her solo project New German Cinema. Its been five years in the making, stretched between London and LA, built from late-night files, long silences and the quiet persistence of two people trying to finish something beautiful from opposite ends of the world. Produced with Alex DeGroot (Zola Jesus, Cate Le Bon), it feels both forensic and devotional, the product of someone who doesnt rush catharsis. Pain Will Polish Me presents both solitary and connective, as if built from long-distance transmissions

between two dream states.

Weiss calls it a meditation on pop and European art-house auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It tracks the ways intimacy and control fold into one another until its impossible to tell where one ends. The songs are about