Drive Like Jehu – Yank Crime – VINYL LP + 7 inch

30,00 

Colored Vinyls (LP and 7 inch) : orange
EAN : 0723248203711
Release 1994
Repress 2023

Out of stock


Description

The band’s second and, unfortunately, final album, Yank Crime is as worthy and awesome as its predecessor, losing not a jot in the change from independent to major label status. Including some longer, more complex tunes this time around, Drive Like Jehu is otherwise essentially unchanged, fusing brawling, crisp rhythms and high volume intensity with technical complexity, feeling like a mad science experiment gone completely out of control. Aside from the guest backing vocals on the frazzled angst explosion “Luau!” by fellow San Diego music fiend Rob Crow, it’s again all down to the band’s four members, with drummer Trombino providing the strong, take-no-prisoners mix. Perhaps even more than the debut, Yank Crime solidified Drive Like Jehu’s reputation as kings of emo. While use of that term rapidly degenerated to apply to sappy miserableness by the decade’s end, here the quartet capture its original sense, wired, frenetic, screaming passion, as first semi-created by the likes of Rites of Spring. Whether making it short and sweet, as the surprisingly gentle instrumental “New Intro” demonstrates in three minutes, or taking time, like the nearly ten-minute conclusion “Sinews,” the band wastes not a note. Froberg’s sense of intense, almost accusatory delivery is astonishingly dramatic throughout, whether in full cry or with a touch of restraint, as on the rhythmic chorus of “Do You Compute.” His guitar partnership with Reis is still in full cry, creating honestly epic zoned and screaming feedback roars and waves — the aforementioned “Do You Compute” is one fine example, as is “Luau!,” which builds to a awe-inspiring, eternally ascending rise. While a recording of the band’s incendiary live shows would be the best way to remember the quartet, Yank Crime is a thoroughly excellent if unexpected way to bow out, artistic rock that actually, honestly, and totally rocks.

Tracklist :
A1 Here Come The Rome Plows
A2 Do You Compute
A3 Luau
B1 Super Unison
B2 Golden Brown
B3 Sinews
C1 Human Interest
C2 New Intro
D1 New Math

Additional information
Weight 350 g
Format

LP

Style

Noise/Math-Rock

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