Jookabox- Dead Zone Boys
Mon 5 Oct 2009
Jookabox- Dead Zone Boys
9/10
Prepare to have your head blown clean off by an exploding concrete ball of ferocious bass drums and guitars that’ll shock your spine with their intense therapy. Jookabox’s new album is a kaleidoscopic martyr; a hell-raising alert signalling the end of human existence. David Adamson’s third album, released by Joyful Noise in tandem with Asthmatic Kitty Records throws the doors wide open, tearing away any remnants of old-blues and psychedelic folk left over from his two previous albums (2007’s Scientific Cricket and 2008’s Ropechain) and cuddles together multiple genres of music that normally sit worlds apart. Hip-hop beats align with glam rock vocals (’Phantom Don’t Go’, ‘East Side Bangs/ East Side Fade’); trashy RnB vocal effects feed across urban country hymns (’Glyphin’ Out’, ‘F.I.T.F. #1′); Gospel singers join in chorus with howling sirens (’Don’t Go Phantom’) and folk guitars side with rockabilly rhythms (’You Cried Me’). It’s a colourful mess, but it’s also one of the most beautiful musical fusions of recent time.
Nick
