Oh man, my roommate loved Pissed Jeans. He kind of gave this ugly stare, disgusted. “It’s just a lot of noise,” he says. But that's why this band is so awesome. Now, on their second album, Hope for Men, the band has found its sound. The separation is superior, with most of Matt Korvette’s vocal, while moaned, sounding audible. The lyrics are worth picking up, like “Bad Wind”, a song about wind blowing through a town, wiping everything away. All the frenzied noise stops for “Scrapbooking,” giving Korvette time to struggle through old pictures. It’s quite haunting, piano and all.
Pissed Jeans is an ugly, hostile band and they throw drunk mêlées for shows (witnessed) that will leave you deaf for two days. Not in a bad way. “I’ve Still Got You (Ice Cream)” is a song about ice cream and how it makes problems seem easier. The band locks into grooves at many points, but none better than “Fantasy World,” rolling through hills of smog to get to this huge party room filled with booze and grape juice. The wall is completely torn down. I love the live sound of the record and also the added experimenting of “Scrapbooking” and “The Jogger,” which is all feedback while Korvette lists off stereotypes of people that make the “not so rich majority” of the world feel smaller.
Hope for Men is brilliant because the common working person can relate. I know I do. I like ice cream, beer, wind, pizza, and kicking the shit out of my drum set. Pissed Jeans makes taking out some stress a part-time job. I wonder how far they can take this.
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