After their first two albums, my impressions about The Jellybricks were kinda divided in two.
I thought of them as a band sure capable of writing songs that can stand alongside the major league power-pop classics and on the other side, they always had some tunes that would make me hit the skip button.
With their new release, this thing changes radically, in favour of the “classics” department. When they stick to the album-title’s definition, what they come up with is a “Sweet” sounding melodic noise by way of Matthew, most notable in the opening Can’t Be Wrong.
With the volume slightly turned down, also comes a kind of a “velvet” touch that makes me “crush”, like in Easy For You or the closing Well Enough, and Over Now is something that would’ve fit perfectly The Lemonheads’ Atlantic-period albums.
All Fired Up throws in some Young-ish ‘Horse vibes and the one that I’ll come back to most often is Takes Too Long, with it’s swirling popsikey guitar line.
If they were a bit “jelly” before, these “bricks” are getting quite firm now … build yourself up!
[Released by Kool Kat 2004]
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