Thursday, July 12, 2007

Five O'Clock World


If their bio on Subpop's site is to be believed, Pissed Jeans are office zombies by day, wild men by night. It goes on about the "straight" world they inhabit during the day (one as an insurance claims adjuster another as an account manager), inferring that their co-workers are clueless about their night job as a band. Whether or not it was even relevant, but intrigued by their anti-social band name, I skipped right to the download.
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It's a pretty mean racket. Imagine My War-era Greg Ginn (playing uncharacteristically sloppy), sitting in with Flipper, with Darby Crash singing. Derivative as hell, but considering that the source material is a few decades old, and that they do seem to have a good grasp on it, you have to give the the benefit of the doubt. After all, even if only for this one song, they made dirty noisy sloppy post-hardcore sludge that begs to be played loud. And it sticks in your head. That is a good thing. They should quit their day jobs.
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Interview @ Blastitude.com

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi. I just interviewes Pissed Jeans some days ago for my music blog (www.kaputmagazine.blogspot.com). I´m translating it to spanih and it will be published in that language, but I can send you the english original version if you want. Great Band... Cheers.