Titled Dance Underwater, it is Gene Loves Jezebel U.K.’s fourth proper album.
GENE LOVES JEZEBEL PROMISE FULL
And true to his word, Jay (vocals/guitar) with his current bandmates-Peter Rizzo (bass), James Stevenson (guitar), and Chris Bell (drums)-are set to release the Gene Loves Jezebel album on September 15th in North America, a full twenty years after its direct predecessor.
Finally, in late 2016, Jay, who was back in the U.K., announced that his Gene Loves Jezebel was working on a new album. Nothing much was heard from Jay’s camp after his visit to the United States in the mid-’90s to reunite, albeit briefly, with Michael, resulting in the 1997 album VII. Having relocated to California, United States, Michael eventually retained the band’s name and released three albums-1999’s Love Lies Bleeding, 2001’s Giving Up the Ghost, and 2003’s Exploding Girls. When Michael left the group, Jay and the rest of the band soldiered on, releasing two more albums-1990’s Kiss of Life and 1992’s Heavenly Bodies. After all, Jay and Michael are twins, so perhaps their musical genes produce similarly wonderful sonic results.įormed in 1980, in London, England, Gene Loves Jezebel was in the forefront of the Gothic New Wave/Rock scene in the late ’80s, churning out hit single after hit single (“Heartache,” “Desire ,” “The Motion of Love,” and “Jealous”) and waving the genre’s flag alongside fellow Glam Rockers such as The Danse Society (“Heaven Is Waiting”), The Sisters of Mercy (“Walk Away”), The Mission (“Wasteland”), Red Lorry Yellow Lorry (“Walking on Your Hands”), and Siouxsie & the Banshees (“Cities in Dust”). And this has essentially gifted their fans two equally interesting facets of the same band. And, ultimately, after four successful studio albums together-from 1983’s Promise to 1987’s The House of Dolls-it did not matter anymore for, in 2009, each of the Aston twins had decided to pursue his own version of the same band, based on a court-sanctioned agreement-Jay’s Gene Loves Jezebel, still in the U.K., and Michael’s Gene Loves Jezebel, based in the USA. Think of the ’80s counterpart of the love-hate relationship of Oasis’s Gallagher brothers in the 1990s. By the 1990s, Gene Loves Jezebel was more like Jay hates Michael or Michael hates Jay due to the well-publicized fiery feud between the twin brothers fronting the English band.
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