If you love Snow Patrol or Youth Group you might want to have a listen to this one. Red Jezebel’s new album, How I learnt To Stop Worrying, is thirteen tracks of extremely well produced rock. It’s a pretty god-damn slick job. It’s certainly smooth but, I don’t know, somehow it doesn’t sound as if Red Jezebel actually ripped the arse out of their pants getting it down!
The second track, K_icking Deadly Sins_ – receiving some airplay at the moment – is probably as good as it gets. The heaviest track on the album, it seems to have a streak of viciousness, lacking on many of the other tracks. Don’t get me wrong they’re all worth a listen but… well…
The album is chockers full of really great vocals, great lyrics and pretty bloody good riffs to boot. How I learnt To Stop Worrying is essentially a pretty likeable piece of work, in a Sunday arvo sense. It’s got some pretty big sounds in there but there’s a certain, I don’t know, gentleness about it too.
At times you can sense something huge is lurking in there. Many of the tracks in the first few bars show real growling promise (some even have whiffs of REM ) but somehow many never quite reach their full potential. The album, for mine, lacks a bit of rawness or a little energy. With this one you’re on a joy ride in a fat stolen WRX but it’s kinda not the same as a Falcon GT HO V8 with extractors, Holly Carbs, a fucking big lift kit and some tasty furry dice hanging from the mirror!! And there’s definitely no Red Back Spider on the gear knob!
Neo-nostalgia rock played in comfortable shoes!!
Watch the clip for Kickin Deadly Sins
