At the time, Luscious Jackson was continuing work on their second album, working with producer Daniel Lanois. Natural Ingredients eventually sold almost 200,000 copies.Įarly in 1996, Trimble and Cunniff released a side project under the name Kostars.
Following the release of Natural Ingredients, the group spent most of 1995 on the road, including a stint opening for R.E.M. Before the release of Natural Ingredients, Luscious Jackson spent the summer of 1994 on the second stage of Lollapalooza, per the request of the Beastie Boys. "Citysong" became a minor modern rock hit in the fall of that year. Natural Ingredients, the group's first full-length album, was released in the late summer of 1994 to generally favorable reviews. In Search of Manny received very positive reviews and the group quickly became a hip name to drop in alternative rock circles. The following year, the group released its debut EP, In Search of Manny, on the Beastie Boys' record label, Grand Royal it was reissued the following year on Capitol/Grand Royal. Eventually, the duo recruited Schellenbach and Jill's friend Vivian Trimble to form Luscious Jackson, taking their name from a '60s basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers. In 1991, Cunniff and Glaser returned to New York and began writing songs. Schellenbach stayed in New York, where she drummed with Hippies with Guns and attended college, while Cunniff and Glaser attended art school in San Francisco, where they both played in a punk band called Jaws Cunniff continued to edit her fanzine. When the members graduated from high school, they went their separate ways.
Eventually, the trio began hanging out, seeing bands that ranged from hardcore and arty post-punk to reggae and hip-hop. Schellenbach was the drummer in the original hardcore punk incarnation of the Beastie Boys she met Cunniff when she interviewed the Beasties for her fanzine, The Decline of Art. The core of Luscious Jackson - Kate Schellenbach (drums), Jill Cunniff (vocals, bass), and Gabby Glaser (vocals, guitar) - all met as teenagers on the New York post-punk scene of the early '80s. Luscious Jackson's first two recordings, 1992's In Search of Manny and 1994's Natural Ingredients, earned the band a cult following and positive critical reviews. Like the Beastie Boys, Luscious Jackson's eclecticism doesn't acknowledge boundaries instead, it takes freely from every kind of music. With their dark hip-hop-influenced alternative rock, Luscious Jackson re-creates the dense, multicultural bohemian world of New York in a collage of sound, where Spanish guitars, jazzy keyboards, funky beats, and breathy, singsong vocals combine into one.
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