Pissed Jeans Review
The Cover Of "King of Jeans" by Pissed Jeans
I’m a terrific fan of the angry young man complex. The further I find myself in an inevitable egress from that trait as an element of my life, the more I seek to indulge in its musical trappings to keep it at least close enough to relate to. I’m thirty-three years old and I have absolutely no qualms with living vicariously through punk and hardcore. I’m tragically iconoclastic. Black t-shirts work for me in certain moods as “statements”.
Time however has made my sense of that ethos sharper, more precise in what I’m seeking. Just being loud and angry isn’t enough for me anymore. I absolutely loved Pissed Jeans’ first album, “Hope For Men”. It was a lot of droll and bored and angry about it. It wasn’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination — I would have never used the word, ‘classic’ — but I felt like the band from Allentown approached that elusive craving. Now their follow up record “King Of Jeans” has arrived and it feels like a small step backwards — maybe. A lot of what I felt was original about “Hope For Men” isn’t here.
Again, I’m a music consumer who listens to albums of a middling quality over and over again (sometimes I rescue a good feeling from them and they become more than just middling). I’m obsessed with knowing exactly why I’m getting an uneasy feeling about it. Below is my review of the album as published on Kevchino. I wouldn’t divert anyone’s gaze from the potential of tremendous anger from Pissed Jeans. I’d simply ask them to consider this record in comparison to its preceding effort.
http://www.kevchino.com/review/pissed-jeans/king-of-jeans/1852
Posted: August 18th, 2009 under Music Reviews.