By Andrew Darden • Oct 25th, 2008 • Category: Music, Show Previews, The Daily Dic
If you’re in the market for a great show this Saturday night (as you should be), may I humbly recommend checking out Jaguar Love at Emo’s with Polysics tonight.
Jaguar Love, who hail from Portland, just released their debut LP, Take Me To The See, on Matador Recs. The band’s lineup is a combination of remnants of bands past, including Johnny Whitney and Cody Votolato of The Blood Brothers (whose demise came only last fall) and Jay Clark of Pretty Girls Make Graves.
It’s no surprise then that the band retains some of the punk sound that characterized these earlier projects, but I can’t help but notice a pop attitude in some of the new songs. The music is slightly more, shall we say “wholesome,” than most of the Blood Brothers releases. To some extent that’s a good thing, as while the band may loose some of the cult appeal drawn by the searing riffs of Blood Brothers, Jaguar Love is more universal: there’s still the same driving, energetic angst behind Jaguar Love, but there’s also catchy riffs and howling synths, all combined into a strange hard-core-glam-rock that’s highly enjoyable. It’s successful on the album, and my bet is that the live show will only get better.
All that plus Polysics’s Japanese New Wave. Seriously, nothing says Saturday like weird pop music. Tracks from Jaguar Love below, and check out Polysics myspace for tunes (I suggest “Arigatou” and skip to like 1:40). See you tonight.
