Jarcrew - 'Jarcrew' (Gut)
4/5
By: Matt Tomiak
Disorderly restless, rip-roaring: all words that go a small way in describing one of the most exciting, eclectic new bands of the year. And, for once, here's a new act who can walk it as assuredly and as proficiently as they talk it. A rambunctious blend of choppy dynamic/tempo-shifts, urgent, spiky guitars and clamorous synths, these five young Welshman have made 'Jarcrew' one hell of a debut-album-experience.
What does it sound like? Think The Strokes meet At The Drive-In. Think the big-lunged bellowing of Hundred Reasons colliding with The Rapture's acute electro-stylings. Think The Cooper Temple Clause's all-embracing genre-fusion and The Music's frenzied sonic freeforms as well as the noises made by fresh post-rockers Oceansize.
From blustering new (digital release only) single 'Paris & The New Math' to jaw-dropping nu-prog ambition of 'Komputer', Jarcrew veer unpredictably from one musical path to the next. Effortlessly too, these tinny, unpolished recordings enhance the Jarcrew experience; super-polished production values just wouldn't be appropriate.
Yet, despite the fervent display, Jarcrew claim that their lyrics (and we quote) 'don't mean anything whatsoever'. Which is a good thing really - for even if there were profound truths to be found strewn across 'Jarcrew', half the time we're buggered if we can actually make any of 'em out. But when the music is as startling as this - sheesh, we're not complaining.
Artists in this article: Jarcrew
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