Jane vs World

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Kate Duncan – Vocals and Tambourine Jadey O’Regan – Piano, Synths and Vocals

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OFFICIAL:www.janevsworld.com
AUDIOLEAF:www.audioleaf.com/janevsworld
MYSPACE:www.myspace.com/janevsworld

BIO

ネットで出会ったケイトとジェイディー。Lisa Loebに憧れてた引っ込み思案なメガネ女子がBEN FOLDSとピアノをキーワードにビビビったとき最高のドライヴィン・ピアノパワーポップが生まれたのです...
オーストラリアはメルボルン発、女の子二人組ピアノポップバンドが本作"56K HEARTS”でついにデビュー。ボーカルのケイトは以前The WellingtonsのZacと共にSarah Sarahというバンドにも在籍。Fountains Of Wayneの強烈なおっかけ（日本にも頻繁に来ています）というちょっとイタメな側面も含めてフィーメール・パワーポップシーンにおいてなくてはならない存在！キャッチー過ぎて頭からメロが離れない楽曲にコンセプトがわかりやすいところ＆この二人のキャラが大きな可能性を感じさせる。

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PRESS

Kate Duncan and Jadey O'Regan's indiepop album has the chirpy teen-adult sound of some 1960s girl groups -- they made me think of The Angels singing "My Boyfriend's Back" -- but their subject matter is specific and modern. The Canadian friend Duncan sings about in "Boy From Canada" and Sebastian in "Sebastian Says" sound like real people, not the generic everyboys that sometimes crop up in lyrics. "I told you about what's in Vegemite," she sings in "Boy From Canada." "You said that it was totally gross and foul / Boy from Canada is kinda cool. / We met on the net last year.../ I've waited online for the past half hour." They sing about the internet in such a matter-of-fact way, that by the end of 56k Hearts I was wondering why more musicians don't do the same. We know that bands have blogs and message boards. When are more of them going to be willing to work "lol" into a lyric? And when they do, will it sound as cute and giddy as this? And will it come with na na nas? Deanne Sole
www.popmatters.com

Take the vim and vigor of Bis, a respect for power pop and girl group traditions, and lyrics that manage to be bitingly clever and winningly innocent at the same time, and you get some idea of what Jane vs. World is onto. Singer Kate Duncan and keyboardist Jadey O'Reagan have a winning happy quality that sometimes reminds me of Vancouver cuddlecoresters cub, though JvW are nerdier -- and proud of it! However, beneath the mismatched clothes and dayglo colors, there is a secret that is revealed; Kate Duncan has one hell of a voice. She is often out of control, but that's part of the attitude -- you have to sing numbers like "B-grade Lisa Loeb" aggressively, with great lines like "And I thought we could put a record on/Ben Folds Five or maybe even The Who/but you said that they weren't emo enough for you." Yes, catchy tunes and smart words crop up on every track.

O'Regan's English studies pay off on her paean to Jack Kerouac, "The Subterranean", a tale of heading to San Francisco with Jack and Dean. Jack exclaims "Man, we're gonna make it/doesn't matter what they say/punctuation is overrated." Ha! The tracks seem to alternate from the prototypical fizzy new wave energy to a couple of bouncy piano numbers more in the vein of the aforementioned Mr. Folds, like "I Used to Write Bad Poetry" (because "I grew to learn I need some indie cred/and now I write bad songs instead") and "The Subterraneans". Ably abetted by producers Michael Carpenter and Matt Fell, I hope that Jane vs. World continues to develop their melodic abilities, as Duncan has so much potential, without losing their overabundance of personality and intelligence.
Mike Bennet www.fufkin.com

Presenting themselves as the perfect cardie-sporting geek girls, Kate Duncan and Jadey Regan are the perfect antidote to the Avril Lavignes of the world, with more hooks than a longline trawler and the wit and intelligence to fill the puff pastry with some of the cleverest lines you'll hear outside of the B-52s and Ben Folds. The Look might be /B-Grade Lisa Loeb/ but she didn't know how to (tongue firmly in cheek) emo with so much wry flippancy, and who couldn't forgive a girl who writes bad poetry when she writes such crystalline pop melodies. It's all there in six three to four minute gems - books, boys, blogs and bad poetry - great harmonies, pure poptastic fun.
Michael Smith, Drum Media, Sydney, Australia


Remember Shampoo from the mid’90s? Replace the trashy glam image with the kind of a bespectacled, nerdy-looking, cardigan-wearing pair of teenage girls, put them in the studio with an all-round pop-wiz (Michael Carpenter), let them write some insanely catchy tunes with witty, Fountains of Wayne-like lyrics, and you’ll get pretty close to the strategy of Jane vs.World. Among the six chewy little bubblegummish instant pop gems, my faves are the upbeat power-popin’ pair of “Sebastian says” and “B-grade Lisa Loeb”, which it definitely isn’t (!), and the Tilbrook/Difford-through-Jellyfish-sounding pair of “I used to write bad poetry” and “The subterraneans”, and all this recorded without a single guitar (!), which is being replaced with the heavy use of keyboards, glockenspiel and kazoo.

It doesn’t seem as they if they will conquer the world they’re against, but they’re sure having quite a good time, which they’re likely to pass on to you too. Goran Obradovic / POPISM radio show

Twee often walks the line between cute-as-a-button and so-cloyingly-cute-I-want-to-strangle-you--with-your-mitten-strings. Jane Vs World test the threshold of cuteness in their deliriously happy piano-driven pop and come out sounding just fine.
A young Australian duo that has some serious musical talent in a genre that often downplays technical skills, Jadey play a mean piano and the girls excel at heavenly harmonies. The compositions feature smatterings of fairly advanced chord changes that one associate's with sophisticated pop music. All six songs on 56k Hearts are very well-crafted pop gems.

Lyrically speaking, this is straight up teeny cuteness without a great deal of resonance to older listeners – songs titles like "I Used To Write Bad Poetry", and "Boy From Canada" might give an indication of the subject matter: mainly boys and the trials and travails of a growing up twee. "The Subterraneans" provides a charmingly youthful diversion into the world of Jack Kerouac.
Lyrical wince-factor for older listeners aside , pop fans will love Jane Vs World's candy-coated pop.
Gordon B. Isnor http://www.lefthip.com/review_detail.php?reviewID=303

INFLUENCES

Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Jellyfish, Beach Boys, Beatles, Fountains Of Wayne, Brendan Benson

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