24 Hour Revenge Therapy [Bonus Tracks] [LP] Jawbreaker Artist

More trials and tribulations than an average episode of Melrose Place, {|Jawbreaker|} continue to explore their personal struggles on their third album, fittingly titled {|24 Hour Revenge Therapy|}. Continuing in the {|Jawbreaker|} tradition of poeti... Read more

More trials and tribulations than an average episode of Melrose Place, {|Jawbreaker|} continue to explore their personal struggles on their third album, fittingly titled {|24 Hour Revenge Therapy|}. Continuing in the {|Jawbreaker|} tradition of poetic lyrics that provide a mental image to each song, the band deal with their endeavors through music instead of wallowing in them, making this record not entirely bleak. {|Do You Still Hate Me,|} for example, has the persona dishing out the friction of a relationship gone sour through talking to the person in question: I wrote you a letter/I heard it upset you/How can I do this better/We're getting older/But we're acting younger. Being critiqued and ostracized from their scene during the height of their popularity was another headache singer/songwriter {|Blake Schwarzenbach|} dealt with around the time this album was released (their previous album, {|Bivouac|}, provided them with a huge cult following). This no doubt inspired the song {|Indictment,|} which talks about not caring what anyone thinks of their songwriting (I just wrote the dumbest song/It's going to be a singalong/Our enemies will laugh and be pointing/It wont bother me, what the thoughtless are thinking). Providing the perfect flow of temperamental pop to go along with these stories is proof enough that {|24 Hour Revenge Therapy|} is an acme of {|Jawbreaker|}'s creative output. ~ Mike DaRonco Less