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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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Designed by Carmen at Hey Mama Creative
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Exclaim Magazine Reviews Our Debut Album
Exclaim Magazine Review
By Nicole Villeneuve
Vancouver, BC's Jakartah confidently cite obvious acts such as These Arms Are Snakes and Fugazi as influences, but elsewhere, they've been called everything from driving indie rock to prog metal, and have even (really wrongly) been compared to the polished radio-core of Emery. It's easy to see why their categorization is such a guessing game -- on their debut album, Jakartah experiment with blending bottom-heavy post metal bass and dual riffage, intentionally sloppy post-hardcore vocal melodies and enough effortless time changes to keep your inner emo kid on his toes, and usually, they do it all in one song.
On higihlight track " A Young Boy Forgets About Heaven, " there's even a borderline pretty breakdown, and if it wasn't for the brooding minor key bed, these guys might have encountered some impulse Explosions in the Sky namedrops too. Some future self-editing could come in handy for the unnecessarily droning bits but in the meantime, Jakartah have produced an intriguing and, even with its potentially distracting smorgasbord of sounds, memorable debut. (Torque)
Link: http://exclaim.ca/musicreviews/latestsub.aspx?csid1=138&csid2=870&fid1=42503
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
MELOPHOBE reviews "In The Nervous Lights Of Coincidence" in less than 50 words!
Jakartah - “In The Nervous Light Of Coincidence” - Borrow It
Jakartah incorporate the strident urgency of hardcore with the precise, whirling architectures of early 2000s Dischord bands. Though they lack the dynamics of the instrumentation, the vocals stand out for their clarity. Jakartah’s need to be understood outweighs the emotional posturing of rage that is too frequent in their contemporaries.
Reminds us of: Ian’s Fugazi | a mellower Botch | June of 44
Recording new album in January with Stu!
We recorded our EP "Monumental Defeatests All Burn Alive" [Sea Section Records] with Stu back in 2007. When it came time to record our debut full length he was on tour with Daggermouth.
This time we're lucky that he's in-town. We'll see what record it's going to be with the obvious tension of Stu & his Canucks vs. Richie & his Maple Leafs butting heads that will hopefully resolve into a great album!
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