Pissed Jeans - Half Divorced (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Three songs into Half Divorced, the sixth album from long-running Philadelphia noise-punk band Pissed Jeans, we’re really hitting a groove. Drums hit like nutpunches. Guitars squall and splatter. If you heard the bass tone while driving, it would cause you to pull over and call a mechanic immediately. Singer Matt Korvette sounds like a kodiak bear who’s been laid off from his job wherever kodiak bears work and who just found out that his severance check didn’t come through. It’s some real prime ’90s sludge ugliness, the type of thing that you might pull from the second side a half-forgotten Amphetamine Reptile compilation, until you notice the words that Korvette is belching out: “Guess you’re a helicopter parent! Figure it out, man! You’re just a helicopter parent! And that’s one thing I cannot stand!”

If I remember right, the Jesus Lizard never got mad about helicopter parents. Neither did Unsane or Cows or Drive Like Jehu or Surgery or any of the other bands who were making pulverizing, misanthropic post-hardcore during my younger years. I’m pretty sure that the term “helicopter parent” didn’t exist in the ’90s — or, if it did, it certainly wasn’t a buzzword. Parenting philosophies were different then. Parents were finding entirely different ways to fuck their kids up. We don’t have the same noise-rock infrastructure today that we had in the ’90s, but noise-rock bands still exist. These days, they can get mad about entirely new subjects — things like helicopter parents

TRACKLIST

1. Pissed Jeans - Killing All the Wrong People
2. Pissed Jeans - Anti-Sapio
3. Pissed Jeans - Helicopter Parent
4. Pissed Jeans - Cling to a Poisoned Dream
5. Pissed Jeans - Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt
6. Pissed Jeans - Everywhere Is Bad
7. Pissed Jeans - Junktime
8. Pissed Jeans - Alive With Hate
9. Pissed Jeans - Seatbelt Alarm Silencer
10. Pissed Jeans - (Stolen) Catalytic Converter
11. Pissed Jeans - Monsters
12. Pissed Jeans - Moving On



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