The band developed as a focus for the appreciable quantity of electronically dominated songs the pair wrote for Fucked Up’s fifth album, Dose Your Desires. Having recruited UK-based musicians Jack Goldstein and Tamsin M Leach on guitar and drums respectively, the band have, over the previous four-and-a-half years, notched up pleasant help slots supporting bands corresponding to Excessive Vis, Pissed Denims, and Titus Andronicus at their London gigs, regardless of Haliechuk being based mostly in Canada.
Their debut album, Concord Avenue, featured quite a lot of melodic, summery synth-pop songs that had been fused with the jangly guitar stylings of bands corresponding to Squeeze and XTC. Their new album, Get Me the Good Stuff, options songwriting in an identical vein, however its preparations utilise a harder-edged, indie-punk guitar sound that’s paying homage to the final two Fucked Up albums.
The quick tempo, loud guitars, and electrical organ riff of opening monitor “Let It Be Me” present listeners with a good suggestion of the sound that’s to comply with. The music is muscular and thick, however Falco’s vocals being excessive up within the combine provides it a levity that different riff-dominated bands corresponding to Pissed Denims can lack at occasions. Lead single “Drifting Superstition,” described by Falco as “a Mondays-meets-Bolan, funky filo pastry,” then lightens proceedings considerably with a poppier sound. “Our Home That Doesn’t Change” and the title monitor proceed the jangly, synthey sound.
Nevertheless, the album additionally has some mod-style leanings. The rhythms of “Higher Right here Than in Love” supply a welcome throwback to The Fashion Council, and the facility chords on “Misplaced in Tune” recall The Who circa Quadrophenia. While “My Toes on Your Floor” curiously introduces some Corridor and Oates-esque saxophones to proceedings, the harder-edged guitar sound and mellifluous vocals return to dominate songs corresponding to “Telltale Flyover,” “L.I.E.,” “Put Me within the Image,” “Reside Free Underwater,” and finale “Within the Warmth of the Solar.”
Jade Hairpins have improved upon their enduringly listenable debut album with Get Me the Good Stuff. The album retains the songwriting expertise and ear for lingering melodies that Concord Avenue displayed, but it surely alloys these qualities to chunky, satisfying, usually Bob Mould-esque guitar-playing that has come to characterise one of the best moments of Falco and Haliechuk’s current work on their mutual day job. While it isn’t this author’s place to make pronouncements as as to if such redolence is deliberate or not, what’s for sure is that the album shows a perceptible evolution in Jade Hairpins’ energy as a quartet, by way of songwriting, enjoying, and Falco’s craving but joyful vocals.
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