Paradise Island
Lines Are Infinitely Fine (Dim Mak)
By Megan Holmes
Published: August 30th, 2003 | 10:41am
Jenny Hoyston is known for being eccentric and experimental. You can find her dancing on-stage in her underwear and playing spastic trumpet in the West Coast frenetic rock outfit Erase Errata. With Paradise Island she is on her own, mixing it up with an array of instruments and styles. This is a somewhat bizarre avant-garde exploration in sound not unlike Wynne Greenwood's attempts in Tracy + The Plastics, but while Greenwood has been able to make a consistent sound that is not all over the map, Paradise Island's Lines Are Infinitely Fine sounds almost like a demo of songs. We get a taste of folk, electro, rock, and really raw vocals.
If I didn't know Erase Errata I might not be so interested in Paradise Island. It seems that Hoyston has a lot of ideas that she is not afraid to try, but whether that is out of arrogance or cleverness is unclear. She reminds me of a young Kathleen Hanna, using her ego and somewhat simple ideas to make a change. So should we praise her or criticize her? As with Hanna, she'll probably inspire both reactions. But I'd rather praise Hoyston for her work in Erase Errata, not Paradise Island.
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