Jaguar Love - 2008 Take Me To The Sea

Band : Jaguar Love

Album : Jaguar Love EP

Release Year : 2008

Genre : Post-Hardcore / Indie / Artcore / Experimental

Tracklist :

1. Highways of Gold
2. Bats Over the Pacific Ocean
3. Jaguar Pirates
4. Georgia
5. Vagabond Ballroom
6. Humans Evolves into Skyscrapers
7. Antoine and Birdskull
8. Bonetrees and a Broken Heart
9. The Man With the Plastic Suns
10. My Organ Sounds Like...
 

The Blood Brothers died way too early. After just five albums, the last of which was arguably the high point of their career, the band just fell apart. From this, we have two new projects, both not surprisingly fronted by one of the two vocalists found in the Blood Brothers; Past Lives featuring Jordan Blilie (and pretty much the rest of the Blood Brothers, minus a recent guitarist and plus an original guitarist), and Jaguar Love featuring Johnny Whitney and the guitarist as of the end of the band, Cody Votolato. With the addition of Jay Clark, Jaguar Love would flesh out its lineup and has now released its debut LP, Take Me to the Sea. What is there to say about this new endeavor? Well…mostly that it’s a bunch of unlistenable crap.

What Take Me to the Sea proves is that a unique, ever changing and technically proficient album can actually end up being really bad. It’s not bad in the sense its unredeemable, just in the sense that it fails to do what it wants to really, really hard. It’s not homogeneous in the fact that every song sounds the same, but that pretty much every song ends up doing the same things. It’s not disappointing in the sense we were all expecting something brilliant, but in the sense that we all thought that a pop album made by dudes from the Blood Brothers would at least be cool to listen to. And while it might be cute for a play through, it is unfortunately nothing to get excited about. 

 

 

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