Pissed Jeans

Honeys

Label: Sub Pop

Genre: Stoner / Post Metal / Industrial Rock

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Age and four full-lengths haven’t mellowed Pissed Jeans; they can still unleash a blare that will exfoliate your cochlea. Formed in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Pissed Jeans released <a href="http://www.subpop.com/releases/pissed_jeans/full_lengths/shallow/"><cite>Shallow</cite></a>, their first album, in 2005 on Parts Unknown Records. The band relocated to Philadelphia seven years ago, and Sub Pop released <a href="http://www.subpop.com/releases/pissed_jeans/full_lengths/hope_for_men"><cite>Hope for Men</cite></a> in 2007, and then <a href="http://www.subpop.com/releases/pissed_jeans/full_lengths/king_of_jeans"><cite>King of Jeans</cite></a> in 2009. The latter was recorded by Grammy nominee Alex Newport, who also recorded <cite>Honeys</cite>.
Age and experience have, however, refined Pissed Jeans. Their ideas and execution have become more subtly focused. The songs on <cite>Honeys</cite> are direct without being obtuse, evocative without being vague, personal without being indulgent. They also rock like nobody’s business. Forget all the claptrap you’ve heard about other bands delivering the goods. If you want bloodthirsty, you’ve got it… At times <cite>Honeys</cite> is the sound of being bashed over the head with a snow shovel. At times the band slows down and sounds like waking from a nightmare you can’t quite remember. The songs are catchy, but in a way that would appeal to mental patients who only understand colors.
<cite>Honeys</cite> stews on the kind of mundane, niggling things that keep you up late at night. It’s an ode to the misery and shackles of being a responsible adult, and the shame of one’s own narcissism. Pissed Jeans trucks in menacing songs about insecurity, and nobody has ever done it better.