Album review: Jeff The Brotherhood – Heavy Days
Good old Stolen Recordings, whatever they put out you can always guarantee it’s going to be loud , and latest signing Jeff The Brotherhood keep the levels high with their debut long player ‘Heavy Days’. Made up of brothers Jake (guitars, vox) and Jamin Orrall (drums), Jeff The Brotherhood have been called everything from kraut punk to psychedelic garage, which shows perfectly just how varied and interesting their music is. As album opener, the titular ‘Heavy Days’, kicks off in a fairly standard post punk vein the last thing you would expect to hear is some Hawkwind style guitar noodling but there it is, right there at 1:42.’Heavy Days’ not only serves as the album opener but also sets out their stall pretty nicely; fast and loud punk tunes fused with classic rock guitars. In fact if there was one and I’d compare them too it would be latter day British punk heroes The Fades. But then, just when you think you have them pegged, they throw in some curve balls; The Tropics is a slower but not much softer ballad, ‘Bone Jam’ is a guitar pop gem featuring some great woo-ooo backing vocals whilst ‘Mind Ride’ for the most part sounds like a Talking Heads demo. I’d not heard of Jeff The Brotherhood before this dropped through my letterbox so Heavy Days has come as a very pleasant suprise indeed. Now where’s those earplugs? 8/10
Mark Cousens
Out now on Stolen Recordings
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