Five Songs, 8/3/2022

 Posted on August 3, 2022  |  Joshua Buergel

Jawbox, “Static”

With Novelty, Jawbox added a second guitarist to the lineup and the fuller sound really brought them to another level. While I like Grippe, this is the album where Jawbox became Jawbox. “Static” is one of my favorite songs on the album, with my fondness bolstered by the fun novelty 7" they put out as a split with Tar, where each band covered the other band’s song named “Static”.

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Jawbox  Prefuse 73  Louis Armstrong  The Fearless Flyers  Claude Fontaine 

Five Songs, 6/12/2022

 Posted on June 12, 2022  |  Joshua Buergel

The Fearless Flyers, “Under the Sea / Flyers Drive”

A lot of covers like this one are basically just to generate the Leo DeCaprio pointing meme - excitement at recognizing a thing and little else. The Fearless Flyers (Cory Wong and Joe Dart of Vulfpeck, Mark Lettieri of Snarky Puppy, and Nate Smith of a whole bunch of jazz projects) are great enough players that it’s fun to listen to them add their flourishes here, but it’s still essentially a disposable track.

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The Fearless Flyers  Harvey Milk  The Fall  Men I Trust  The Dead Kennedys