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III
Jakuzi's Attempt →163 listeners1,538 plays
es regnet kaviarpost-hardcorechaotic hardcoreexperimentalhardcore
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"God damn, what a blast! Ain’t it fascinating how any old geezer – like me – may start to shake his butt and bang his head when a great, young band is able to put forth a blast of energy that will infuse his old bones with the memory of his youth and a healthy dose of adrenaline. How does that one guy in the movie Alpha Dog say: “Have a smoke. It’s good for you. It’s healthy.” In that sense, I am ingesting a daily dose of good old hardcore with screaming vocals, erratic rhythms and a big dose of distortion, anger and hyperreactions. See, I even went to a real hardcore / punk show the other week and I saw three bands that reminded me of what I used to like so much about hardcore (and what I hated as well). But if Jakuzi’s Attempt were just another bunch of kids rehashing what decades and generations of other bands have done before them, if they were just another Crass-rip off, then you wouldn’t read about them here. These dudes take a lot of what is standard and then turn it upside down and make it work. Erratic song structures meet some idiosyncratic screaming and they ain’t afraid of using rhythms aside the old 2/2 or 2/4 so common in this area. Maybe they aren’t a real hardcore band at all at heart. Or maybe at heart they are, but their minds don’t let them be one because they know it would be too boring. So here and there they turn a straight forward hardcore blast into a jazzy, jangling, wangly piece of sound exploration. Or do some soft falsetto singing, even in choir s
