Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (2014) [FLAC]

Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (2014) [FLAC]

Original Release: 1994
Genre: Rock
Style: Emo, Punk
Source: 2014 Blackball Records BB-010 Remastered + Bonus Tracks CD
Codec: FLAC
Bit rate: ~ 1,000 kbps
Bit depth: 16
Sample rate: 44.1 kHz

01 The Boat Dreams from the Hill
02 Indictment
03 Boxcar
04 Outpatient
05 Ashtray Monument
06 Condition Oakland
07 Ache
08 Do You Still Hate Me?
09 West Bay Invitational
10 Jinx Removing
11 In Sadding Around

Bonus

12 The Boat Dreams from the Hill (alt)
13 Boxcar (alt)
14 Do You Still Hate Me (alt)
15 Jinx Removing (alt)
16 First Step (outtake)
17 Friends Back East (outtake)

Jawbreaker continue to explore their personal struggles on their third album, fittingly titled 24 Hour Revenge Therapy. Continuing in the Jawbreaker tradition of poetic lyrics that provide a mental image to each song, the band deal with their endeavors through music instead of wallowing in them, making this record not entirely bleak. "Do You Still Hate Me," for example, has the persona dishing out the friction of a relationship gone sour through talking to the person in question: "I wrote you a letter/I heard it upset you/How can I do this better/We're getting older/But we're acting younger." Being critiqued and ostracized from their scene during the height of their popularity was another headache singer/songwriter Blake Schwarzenbach dealt with around the time this album was released (their previous album, Bivouac, provided them with a huge cult following). This no doubt inspired the song "Indictment," which talks about not caring what anyone thinks of their songwriting ("I just wrote the dumbest song/It's going to be a singalong/Our enemies will laugh and be pointing/It wont bother me, what the thoughtless are thinking"). Providing the perfect flow of temperamental pop to go along with these stories is proof enough that 24 Hour Revenge Therapy is an acme of Jawbreaker's creative output.

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Please buy this on vinyl or CD. I've owned the original CD since 1996 and just recently purchased Dear You on vinyl. This is one of the best bands of the 1990s. Buy some Jets to Brazil records while you're at it.