“Beautiful stuff ” – Zakia Sewell, BBC 6 Music
“One of this year’s best surprises has been Soul Retrieval, the debut solo album from Janine Rainforth, best known as the lead singer and co-founder of seminal post-punk funk outfit Maximum Joy.
Rainforth’s powerfully unadorned language feels like it wants to be understood,..There’s a hard-earned clarity and a generosity to the writing which is really affecting.”
Ransom Note
. Janine Rainforth …. the perfect non-singer, lightly gorgeous voice but no impulse to shake it around, just like it glide out…. Matthew Schnipper, The Fader
“As Rainforth forges a new musical future, it’s important not to divorce it from her fearless and catalytic past.. Releasing these long-gestated ideas into the public sphere, and especially returning to the stage after over two decades, took some guts..” Geraint Davies – Crack Magazine
“Marrying digital technologies with found sounds and otherworldly vocals, she’s dabbling in ambient crescendos and synth-laden melodies to maximum effect.” Janine spoke to M Magazine
Original co-founder and front woman of post punk band Maximum Joy, Janine Rainforth returned to performing her music in public in 2014, after her music career was cut short following assault and trauma.
One of her first return live performances was supporting the Pop Group at Islington Assembly Rooms.
Janine now records and produces her music mainly from her home studio in East London.
In 2015 Janine was approached by Simple Things and she reformed Maximum Joy with some original players and some new to perform at Simple Things, 2015 and made a new Maximum Joy album released on her own label London Field Recordings in 2019. They are gigging – performing at Dimensions 2018 and the inaugural We Out Here 2019 .
“Rainforth’s new work comprises rich, blurry lullabies which flow sonorously through space, dripping searching keys over shuffling rhythms and, of course, Rainforth’s piercing but pining vocal. It’s a sweeping, ambient sound which recalls another strand of 80s alternative in the otherworldly ethereal wave of Liz Fraser’s work with This Mortal Coil, or even the contemporary avant-pop of Zola Jesus or Glasser. ” Geraint Davies – Crack Magazine
Janine’s writing on Substack link below
mail@londonfieldrecordings.com
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