Pissed Jeans Hope For Me CD

While the Allentown, Pennsylvania, noisecore act Pissed Jeans could be tagged as nothing more than a bunch of knuckle-headed dudes screaming at the system, to do so would be to underestimate a band with considerable smarts, twisted though they may be. The Jeans' sound owes a considerable debt to the screeching metallic punk of various AmRep and early Touch & Go acts, as well as vintage Black Flag, and lyrically the Jeans spew a similar frustrated, whiteman-blues bile. The band's targets, however, are unique to new-millennium America: latte-sipping, iPod-sporting liberals are just as guilty for our horrible consumerism-as-Ritalin malaise as churchgoing Bushies. Our world is bloated, ugly, and bursting at the seams with disposable everything, sayeth the Jeans. And HOPE FOR MEN is the beautifully wretched sound of the inevitable pop.

Recording information: Dan's House Studio, Center Valley, PA (10/2006-01/2007).

Photographer: Shawn Brackbill.

Pissed Jeans: Bradley Fry (guitar); Sean McGuiness (drums); Matt Korvette, Dan McKinney (unknown instrument); Dave Rosenstrauss.

Personnel: Bradley Fry (vocals, guitar); Sean McGuinness (vocals, drums); Matt Korvette (vocals); Dave Rosenstrauss (piano, bass guitar).

Rolling Stone (p.98) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "This music is incredibly violent, yet unimpeachably cheery....So many bands try to nail this sound, and so few get close, but the Jeans are absolutely prime."
Spin (p.102) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[B]lown-amp sludge punk....Matt Korvette's hotfoot howl stays safely buried under landfills of guitar grumble and bar-fight drum pound..."
Uncut (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[B]eneath their noisy surface lurk subtleties of expression great ideas."
Alternative Press (p.174) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Equal parts aggressive, discordant and experimental, the 10 hypnotic tracks on HOPE FOR MEN are equally reminiscent of Black Flag, Sonic Youth and the Jesus Lizard..."
Magnet (p.119) - "'People Person' opens with Fry wringing sounds out of his guitar that could only be replicated by throwing a metal trash can from a 20th-story window....Korvette spews bile in an atonal rant that would make the Jesus Lizard's David Yow green with envy."