Pissed Jeans' debut album, "Shallow," (Parts Unknown) is musically mirrors the ugliness of our modern-day world circa 2006 with war overseas and political corruption at home. Pissed Jeans make morose and dirge-filled noise-rock that 99.9% of the population would say is without merit. The band's sounds totally menacing on "Ugly Twin," that sounds as if it were modeled after side two of Black Flag's "My War." Then there's the ultra disturbing "I'm Sick" that rages out of control with the squealing feedback of guitars, that won't relent. And "Wachovia" features a deliberately-paced pummel a la Flipper that sounds downright sinister.
And then there are the lyrics which dwell on the pain and anguish of tortured humans as they reflect on their own disgusting bodily emissions, mental hell and unrequited love and sickness. On the whole, Pissed Jeans make music that embraces and sounds like the gritty underbelly of humanity. Yet sometimes the sickening sound of the band's nihilistic jams seems so right when the world seems so wrong, fucked up and out of control.
Why Sub Pop, a label with sugary-sweet bands such as Band of Horses and The Shins, would sign Pissed Jeans is beyond me. But for comparison's sake, if you go had to go back in the Sub Pop time machine, Pissed Jeans sound like a more pissed off and deranged Tad and rock harder than a schizophrenic Mudhoney would.
MP3: Pissed Jeans - "Closet Marine"
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