The latest release by south London pop-punk power trio Jack and Sally.
Five classic rock tracks you will be singing in your sleep. (CD, card sleeve).
1, Superstar
2, Nevernia
3, Tomorrows revolution
4, Long way home
5, Macy
The punky “Nevernia” has something of Gaslight Anthem’s early work about it. This is melody, alt rock, cleverer people than me call it, but I dunno. It chugs, and it does things the way it wants to.
There are aren’t many pop punk bands that do things with the dirty swagger of 'Tomorrow’s Revolution'. I am back to the Jimmy Eat World comparison for this one too, because it has a real clenched fist. A true highlight, it coarses with an anger at the world, and the lyrics, in all seriousness, if not the music, have a Levellers thing going on.
'Long Way Home' is from a different part of the toolbox. Slower, a little singer/songwriter, a bit of Stereophonics’ arena vision, and one for which 'Macy', the closing song, is a perfect companion.
Also a mark of the cleverness of the record, because it very much continues the story of the opening song here.
That is a neat metaphor for the whole album because it feels like Jack And Sally are very much at the start of their journey. These five tracks benefit from repeated listening too, as they reveal more each time.
'Who We Become' is a marker of intent from a band who may well become anything they choose in time.
(Review from Maximum Volume Music, http://www.maximumvolumemusic.com/review-jack-and-sally-who-we-become-2019/ )
