I’m the biggest Blood Brothers fan. Inconsolable I was when I heard they’d ended the band. I wonder why because Young Machetes was a great record and looked like being a crossover hit. What’s done is done though I guess.
So here are Jaguar Love, making up two of the aforementioned Blood Brothers; Cody Votolato on guitars, and Johnny Whitney on vocals, along with J Clark (previously of Pretty Girls Make Graves) on percussion.
On evidence of the three tracks on this wee sampler Jaguar Love have retained a lot of the energy that made the Blood Bros so vitriolic, and don’t sound too dissimilar. To be expected. The guitars are less broken though, and Whitneys high pitched wails have license to roam, alone, as they please, rather than being the schizophrenic partner of Jordan Blilie.
Jaguar Love are more pop orientated, but the carnivalesque style remains. The diverse elements they bring together; the eerie Japanese breakdown in ‘Videotape Seascape’, the oddball hooks on ‘Highways of Gold’, wouldn’t be done by anyone else. You are drawn in by the fact that it sounds like nothing else.
Jaguar Love have taken the crazed world of The Blood Brothers and distilled it into some great noisey pop. A neat intro to what will surely be a great debut album in August. I would still advise anyone who hasn’t heard their previous band to check them out first though…
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Links
Jaguar Love [myspace]
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