The voice and songwriter of Fear of Men, Jessica Weiss, carries that same lyrical precision and emotional intensity into her solo project New German Cinema. It’s 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 doesn’t rush catharsis. Pain Will Polish Me presents both solitary and connective, as if built from long-distance transmissions between two dream states.
 
It’s an album about losing yourself in order to see what’s left. A document of love as obsession, repetition, survival. A meditation on love as both mirror and undoing, crafted in fragments, then pieced together into something whole.
 
TRACKLIST:
 
A1. Sub Rosa
A2. Swirling Pain
A3. Being Dead
A4. I Become Heavy
A5. Hera's Theme I
A6. Eyes
B1. Water Drops
B2. Hera's Theme II
B3. My Mistake
B4. All That Heaven Allows
B5. Pain Will Polish Me
B6. Perfect Secret
 
RIYL: The Cranberries, Bat For Lashes, Chromatics & Desire.
 
BRAND NEW AND FACTORY SEALED.