I make no apologies for my love of the musical output of the great city of Atlanta, Georgia. I hung out with a few people from Knaves Grave at a show I played in Atlanta and liked them enough to check out their single. This record is pure hooks. It sounds a little like Golden Triangle, but the guitar parts are undeniably local to Atlanta. The layers and layers of vocals and guitar emit a feeling that you’re listening to B-52’s if Ricky Wilson had been drinking Nyquil and Fred Schneider had been booted. The single, “I Don’t Wanna Be Yr A.A.R.P.” is a riff-monster. It’s impossible to listen to this song and not find yourself singing along to the chorus. The dream-like guitars mix with the crunchy bass and confuse your ears. Are you listening to happy pop music or did Jehu get a lot weirder?
“Shitty Sunrise” is not nearly as successful of a song as “A.A.R.P.” but it’s still great. I’d say that while the song isn’t as memorable as the first side, “Sunrise” sounds GREAT. There are definitely a few parallels between this record and some of the much more popular Brooklyn bands, but the fact that this existed outside of the ____ Girls bubble means that while it’s not hard to connect the dots, this record is so much more interesting than most of what that scene did in 2009. The sheer fact that this record sounds big, but doesn’t sound like it was recorded in an empty swimming pool by a drunk sailor can tell you it’s not from New York.
This record rips. I think that George from Blame Game plays or played with Knaves Grave, but I’m not sure if he’s on this record.
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