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" Worth it alone to wallow in the album's climactic refrain of "You keep fucking up my life!" If it doesn't send a shiver to your spine, call the medics".
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Blake Schwarzenbach: |
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Singing, Guitars, Keyboards |
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Brian Maryansky: |
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Guitars (JT1052) |
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Jeremy Chatelain: |
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Bass, Singing |
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Chris Daly: |
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Drums, Percussion |
The Story So Far:
Being dubbed an all-star supergroup before you've even played a show is a burden that no band should have to carry. Fewer bands, however, have carried it better than the New York-based Jets to Brazil who have somehow managed to both shrug off the pressure with an indifferent sway and surpass the marks set by their alma maters.
Practically formed by accident, Jets to Brazil came together when frontman Blake Schwarzenbach wound up in Brooklyn following the disappointing breakup ofJawbreaker and reconnected with a friend he met at the band's last show. That friend, Jeremy Chatelain, was in the middle of a dissolving band himself as Handsome - the group he fronted for two years - found themselves at the end of a winding path that no one could retrace. After months of four-tracking with drum machines, the duo asked Chris Daly - by then a free agent following the demise of Texas is the Reason - to join the group on drums. Daly christened the band Jets To Brazil, and following a five-song demo, the trio came to the Jade Tree stable in time to record Orange Rhyming Dictionary - a stunning introduction by anyone's standards.
Though their debut album flexed residue from the band's distinct musical pasts, Four Cornered Night - the Jets' latest album for Jade Tree and first with former Van Pelt guitarist Brian Maryansky - ventures forward as the band's first truly collective work. Its no wonder then why the ghosts have been laid to rest and the band's spirit has managed to remain intact and unharmed by the initial speculation. It's not easy being a supergroup of epic proportions when you're a tight-knit group of regular guys who know how to write a great song.
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Members of Jawbreaker, Texas is the Reason, and Handsome hash out one of the most riveting debut records we've ever heard, braiding punk rock bravado with a pop consciousness, post-modern style, and the poetic literary flair that hurled Blake Schwarzenbach into the
songwriting elite. Worth it alone to wallow in the album's climactic refrain of "You keep fucking up my life!" If it doesn't send a shiver to your spine, call the medics.
Blake Schwarzenbach: Typing, Recitation, Strings, Keys
Jeremy Chatelain: Bass, Harmony
Chris Daly: Drums, Directions
Recorded August 1998
Released October 1998
1. Crown of the Valley
2. Morning New Disease
3. Resistance is Futile
4. Starry Configurations
5. Chinatown
6. Sea Anemone
7. Lemon Yellow Black
8. Conrad
9. King Medicine
10. I Typed For Miles
11. Sweet Avenue
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Jets To Brazil
Four Cornered Night
JT1052
DBL LP | CD
Wow. We loved Orange Rhyming Dictionary, but we just about dropped our jaws when this one showed up on our doorstep. Along with adding former Van Pelt guitarist Brian Maryansky to the fold, Jets To Brazil add dimension, savoir faire, and one hell of a grand piano to forge ahead with a breathtaking new direction - encapsuling classic American rock'n'roll with a nod to the Mods underneath a matchless lyrical gift.
Blake Schwarzenbach: Singing, Piano, Keys, Guitar, Crested
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Brian Maryansky: Guitars, Tweeds, Glossy Ibis
Jeremy Chatelain: Bass, Singing, Sandwich Tern
Chris Daly: Drums, Percussion, Velvet Duck
Additional Muscians:
Amy Dominques: Cello on 4, 5, 13
Recorded April 2000
Released September 2000
Jets To Brazil
Perfecting Loneliness
JT1079
DBL LP | CD
Jets To Brazil's third offering is a mirror ball of sound that reflects a clearer, more focused band and represents not so much a continuation of Jets To Brazil's previous gestures, but rather a better understanding of them. Having mastered their brave blend of angular rock, epic balladry, and really cool keyboard noises, the Jets have accomplished what is quite clearly the defining record of their career. This CD is enhanced with video.
Blake Schwarzenbach: sing, pianny, Juno, Mellotron, lap, steel, acoustic / electric
Jeremy Chatelain: bass (fingers, felt, tortex), sing, Hunan bicycle
Chris Daly: drums, snares, percussion, lamp-lit sizzle
Brian Maryansky: Guitars, Phases, pedals, ambient grit
Amy Domingues: Cello
J. Robbins: Mellotron, JXP Sequence, Drive
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okay i was readin in this one book called "Nothing Feels Good" and i came across some werid information.
okay well i guess right before Jets to Brazil was gunna go on tour for 'PerfectongLonliness' Black freaked out, cancelled the whole tour and went home to his parents.....(???) weird.
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