The Jealous Sound - S/T EP - Better Looking Records

Review by: Jennifer Perkins

I was never a big Knapsack fan. Not in the sense that I didn't like them, due to the fact that I just didn't listen to them much. If they sounded like The Jealous Sound I was missing out on a lot and regret the whole thing now. Is it The Sunday's Best influence that I am digging? I don't know because I never listened to much of them either. Unlike some people who may have listened to this record on biased ears expecting something in particular, I was pretty much a virgin and able to take the release on it's own merit.

This band is big on double vocals, which I like. Double Vocals give everything that warm fuzzy feeling ya know. Me likey. Always makes me think of The Rentals. I could listen to "What's Wrong is Everywhere" over and over. The ending with all those computer sounds makes you feel like you are in that movie Tron or something. Songs like "BitterStrings" are more straightforward pop.

"Anxious Arms" is more like what I was expecting. Solo vocals over a plucky guitar. I keep bracing my self for the huge electric guitar intro that starts the rockin' part. Pretty typical song structure in this genera. I wait and I wait and no obnoxious intro. The electric guitars eventually do come in, but not how I was expecting them to and I feel guilty for stereotyping the Jealous Sound, because they fooled me.

I don't know if this CD sounds like these guys old bands, if it's completely fresh, all I know is that I like it. And if these power chord ridden love songs are what I have been missing out on by blocking out this area of Indie music I have really been cheating myself. For something I thought I was destined to hate, I was dead wrong.

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