Pissed Jeans

Hope for Men opens with two cracks of distortion, a bass line as heavy as an oil tanker and some dude growling 'n' howling as if both rabies and tetanus course through his bloodstream. From there, it only gets better: more feedback, more g 'n' h and more of that titanic bass. Pissed Jeans, like their heroes in the Jesus Lizard, do one thing and one thing only: bludgeon the listener with bad vibes and grooves so gnarled they must've crawled up out of the sewer.

Pissed Jeans are not from australia, and they did not rampage through the pub scene in the
late 1980s, but you wouldn't know it to listen to them: These four Pennsylvania dudes play
insane low-end party-killer spaz noise, the kind of punk sludge that recalls Aussie
tough-guy legends like Feedtime or the Cosmic Psychos. This music is incredibly violent,
yet unimpeachably cheery, like one of those shows where strangers are slammi... More >