Jockey
Photo Cred 📷 : @moskvisual
I think we’re reaching some kind of wild critical mass with bands advancing cross-genre pollination in such a deftly but finessed way. I say this because during the runtime of “Time For You To Bury Me”, there occurs this almost divine marriage of punk and post hardcore, of emo and fuzzed out rock that I know has been done before, but sounds so good it feels new.
The feelings evoked are one of laughable misery, vocals sings and screams with a unique despondence that somehow carries this self deprecating smirk, no tongue in a cheek but a mouth open and wailing as the wink and nod of "Old Parallels" opens with uptempo punk chords wrapped in a buttery sweet rhythm section that seems to delicately melt and fuzz out with the vocals and drums.”Tail End of Mourning”, one of two singles to come out the EP, feels like a shoegaze track, but hits like if Joyce Manor was more obsessed with Dinosaur Jr than Morrissey.
“Early Grey” hums and whistles like a particularly cold fall morning, one that just that inch past being uncomfortably cold. A fuzzy wheezing guitar wiles and winnows through vocals that wrap around it like an ill fitting scarf. Album closer “A Spring Burial”, finds choruses of burials adjacent to garden walls, spiraling into Unwound-esque riffage. A pointedly unsomber discordance that very much feels like the shock of Spring melting a winter's thaw to reveal gravestones. In one shot, “time for you to bury” feels like 3 different releases given one focused effort. It winds and gnashes, it sulks and glowers, it gasps and screams and it all feels so fucking real all at once, that I was certain I’d seen my own breath by its end.
If I couldn't think of another reason to tell you how good Jockey is, I'd be left with the simplicity of saying: you absolutely should be watching this band. What they've captured on their “Time For You To Bury Me” reminds me all at once of Temple, Joyce Manor and Title Fight fighting for control of the body they all inhabit. So I say let them fight, let the spring come and the winter thaw away and when I get the chance to stroll through some damp fields on a sidecast cloudy day, you can bet this EP will be looping in my ears. Being released by the always wonderful Oliver Glenn Records as well as the dashingly handsome Jean Scene on vinyl, you can hear the full EP when it drops January 26th.
Checkout their two singles here : Jockey
Writer : @letsgetpivotal
Editor : @just_reidz
01/22/24
