Lo-Fi, nasty, noisy punk rock with melodies Dee Dee would have killed for. Oh and guitar solos stolen from the good and the great of bygone eras. Jacket Burner is on fire! As far as debut LPs go this is a home run filled with hypnotic sleazy guitar slashing over even more hypnotic rhythms and drum beats.
One Man band Jacket Burner is a mystery wrapped in a conundrum wrapped in a spew bag of hate-filled anthems for a generation who probably can’t even remember a time when giants roamed the earth like The Ramones and The Cramps, but their spirit lives on on records like ‘Eat shit’. ‘Be Ur Man’ is a rapid slice of fuzz guitar fucked levels of gain on the vocals that are spitting out a love song to someone before th edirty rolling riff that would have been a love letter to poison ivy and Lux as ‘Re Wire My Brain’ leans on history for its melody and that riff thats drills down into your cranium and demands to be played louder and harder.
Quite how a one-man band can be led by V. Tiers is another story, but Mr Tiers has it going on and slapping around in the ‘Cesspool’ of punk rock is so lo-fi it’s beautiful and couldn’t have been recorded any other way, it just simply wouldn’t have worked.
The beautiful anthemic ‘Teenage Metalhead’ might just be the album’s peak, with great lyrics over a filthy riff. Coming at us via Italy’s Goodbye Boozy Records, this Londoner isn’t happy with ten new tracks (possibly because it would last less than fifteen minutes), but has tagged a bonus ten on side two. So double the hate-drenched, sleaze-soaked punk, the entire ‘Terminal Depression’ digital debut album, doubling the dose of unapologetic fury. This is also a limited run of 250 copies. So sit on it, and you will indeed Eat Shit and no doubt pay fortunes in months to come on Discogs. Don’t sleep on it! It’s been an exceptional few years for Jacket Burner with the split with Gino And The Goons and the ‘Tonight’ EP, then this, Jacket Burner is right where it’s at, go get it.
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