Brian Jacket Letdown
SINGLE REVIEW:
The Brian Jacket Letdown
‘White Sky’
It’s been a good ol’ while since TBJL hit us up with their sonic airbrushes. Lying largely fallow since ‘07, the band’s ever changing line-up have since enlisted the help of bassist Alyssa McDonald of Scritti Politti fame. Along with Alyssa, newcomer Gemma Ware fans The Jacket’s flames with her oddball box of musical wonders, peppering the band’s signature whimsical with sax, reed organ and glock nuances among other aural tickles.
Plucked from their debut album Darling Bit Me, TBJL release ‘White Sky’ this spring. Fabulously eerie, ‘White Sky’s’ melancholic cha-cha recalls the ephemeral roll of a new and brighter season. With cocky little cowbell tunks icing fuzzy guitars and throaty basslines, the record stabs somewhere in between Wilco and Seabear and the very visceral nostalgia therwith. The single’s B-side, ‘Devil In My Room’ takes a horny bow to Eliot Smith waltzing to the Hispanic shimmer of Buena Vista Social Club. An understated gem of a record, it’s quite easily a chunk of any self-respecting music gorger’s summer soundtrack.
Released on 25th May through Genepool Records
by Plum Woodard
