Jawbox – For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Thu, Feb 11, 2010
In their eight-year existence, Jawbox released four studio albums of increasingly skillful post-punk, not necessarily carrying the torch of their Washington DC, elders (Minor Threat, Embrace, Rites of Spring), but instead building on the tradition of Chicago’s thriving early-’80s scene (Big Black, Naked Raygun, Effigies). Highly and perhaps unfairly scrutinized for being the first act to leave über-indie Dischord Records…
Track List
- FF=663:41
- Savory4:10
- Breathe3:48
- Motorist4:43
- LS/MFT3:42
- Cooling Card3:51
- Green Glass3:27
- Cruel Swing2:15
- Jackpot Plus!3:34
- Chicago Piano3:11
- Reel4:37
- U-Trau3:09
- Whitney Walks4:56
Tags: dischord, Indie, Indie Rock, post-hardcore, post-punk
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I could listen to this album all day, every day on repeat. Possibly the most underrated album of the 90s next to Hum’s “Downward Is Heavenward.”