Nite Jewel

As Nite Jewel, Los Angeles musician and multimedia artist Ramona Gonzalez makes synth-based compositions that twist 1980s R&B through an experimental filter. The balance of lo-fi production and a particularly abstract approach to groove on her 2008 debut full-length, Good Evening, would help create the template for the chillwave movement that followed shortly thereafter, but Gonzalez progressed significantly with each new album. Nite Jewel collaborated with artists like Dâm-Funk and Julia Holter as she dabbled with pop, funk, and dance-oriented approaches to her always-morphin...