Pissed Jeans: Hope For Men : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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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 slamming into you but you don't mind because you'll hit them back twice as hard next time. Bradley Fry's guitar rumbles in the distortion, while Matt Korvette screams "People Person" (he isn't one), "Caught Licking Leather" (happens to all of us) and "A Bad Wind" (his sensitive ballad, which somehow makes him sound twice as deranged). So many bands try to nail this sound, and so few get close, but the Jeans are absolutely prime.