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Other than Spirit and the Spanic Boys, father-son duos are rare in rock & roll, which gives the U.K. experimental rockers Mystery Jets a leg up right away: lead singer and keyboardist Blaine Harrison is the son of lead guitarist Henry Harrison. It's handy that they have a hook like that for reviewers to latch onto, because it can be difficult for listeners to get their head around the band's full-length debut on its own terms. Making Dens is filled with quirky, interesting pop songs, but each seems to be in a different style from the others. For example, "You Can't Fool Me Dennis" sounds like an early, Barry Andrews-era XTC song as covered by Franz Ferdinand: the danceable stomp of the rhythm section keeps the spiraling tune from shooting off in a dozen different directions at once, but only just barely. Meanwhile, the first single "Zoo Time" has the cracked, disorienting post-punk-psychedelia vibe of a classic Teardrop Explodes single, but given an extremely contemporary electronic edge. Then there's the handful of songs that recall Kate Bush and/or Atom Heart Mother-era Pink Floyd. Honestly, none of it makes a lick of sense, but unlike, say, the Beta Band -- whose entire shtick was that the parts of their music never fit into a coherent whole -- there's a shapeliness to Making Dens that suggests the record was constructed from some inscrutable blueprint that's just naggingly out of reach. Repeated listens reveal the album's many quirky charms.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
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Cenzo Townshend, Mixer - The Mystery Jets, Writer - Mystery Jets, MainArtist - James Ford, Producer - Fin Eiles, Engineer
© 2006 Good and Evil / 679 Recordings Ltd. ℗ 2006 679 Recordings Ltd.
Cenzo Townshend, Mixer - Joe Fields, Engineer - Kai Fish, Composer - Mystery Jets, MainArtist - James Ford, Producer - William Rees, Composer - Blaine Harrison, Composer - Kapil Trivedi, Composer - Henry Harrison, Composer
© 2006 Good and Evil / 679 Recordings Ltd. ℗ 2006 679 Recordings Limited
Cenzo Townshend, Mixer - The Mystery Jets, Writer - Mystery Jets, MainArtist - James Ford, Producer, Engineer - Justin Underhill, Engineer - Fin Eiles, Engineer
© 2006 Good and Evil / 679 Recordings Ltd. ℗ 2006 679 Recordings Ltd.
Cenzo Townshend, Mixer - The Mystery Jets, Writer - Mystery Jets, MainArtist - James Ford, Producer, Engineer
© 2006 Good and Evil / 679 Recordings Ltd. ℗ 2006 679 Recordings Ltd.
Cenzo Townshend, Mixer - The Mystery Jets, Writer - Mystery Jets, MainArtist - James Ford, Producer - Finn Eiles, Engineer
© 2006 Good and Evil / 679 Recordings Ltd. ℗ 2006 679 Recordings Ltd.
Cenzo Townshend, Mixer - The Mystery Jets, Writer - Mystery Jets, MainArtist - James Ford, Producer - Justin Underhill, Engineer
© 2006 Good and Evil / 679 Recordings Ltd. ℗ 2006 679 Recordings Ltd.
Cenzo Townshend, Mixer - The Mystery Jets, Writer - Mystery Jets, MainArtist - James Ford, Producer, Engineer
© 2006 Good and Evil / 679 Recordings Ltd. ℗ 2006 679 Recordings Ltd.
Cenzo Townshend, Mixer - Kai Fish, Composer - Mystery Jets, MainArtist - James Ford, Producer, Engineer - William Rees, Composer - Blaine Harrison, Composer - Kapil Trivedi, Composer - Henry Harrison, Composer
© 2006 Good and Evil / 679 Recordings Ltd. ℗ 2006 679 Recordings
Cenzo Townshend, Mixer - The Mystery Jets, Writer - Mystery Jets, MainArtist - James Ford, Producer, Engineer, Flute
© 2006 Good and Evil / 679 Recordings Ltd. ℗ 2006 679 Recordings Ltd.
The Mystery Jets, Writer - Mystery Jets, MainArtist - James Ford, Producer, Mixer - Jimmy Robertson, Engineer
© 2006 Good and Evil / 679 Recordings Ltd. ℗ 2006 679 Recordings Ltd.
The Mystery Jets, Writer - Mystery Jets, MainArtist - James Ford, Producer, Mixer - Finn Eiles, Engineer
© 2006 Good and Evil / 679 Recordings Ltd. ℗ 2006 679 Recordings Ltd.
Cenzo Townshend, Mixer - The Mystery Jets, Writer - Mystery Jets, MainArtist - James Ford, Producer, Engineer
© 2006 Good and Evil / 679 Recordings Ltd. ℗ 2006 679 Recordings Ltd.
Album review
Other than Spirit and the Spanic Boys, father-son duos are rare in rock & roll, which gives the U.K. experimental rockers Mystery Jets a leg up right away: lead singer and keyboardist Blaine Harrison is the son of lead guitarist Henry Harrison. It's handy that they have a hook like that for reviewers to latch onto, because it can be difficult for listeners to get their head around the band's full-length debut on its own terms. Making Dens is filled with quirky, interesting pop songs, but each seems to be in a different style from the others. For example, "You Can't Fool Me Dennis" sounds like an early, Barry Andrews-era XTC song as covered by Franz Ferdinand: the danceable stomp of the rhythm section keeps the spiraling tune from shooting off in a dozen different directions at once, but only just barely. Meanwhile, the first single "Zoo Time" has the cracked, disorienting post-punk-psychedelia vibe of a classic Teardrop Explodes single, but given an extremely contemporary electronic edge. Then there's the handful of songs that recall Kate Bush and/or Atom Heart Mother-era Pink Floyd. Honestly, none of it makes a lick of sense, but unlike, say, the Beta Band -- whose entire shtick was that the parts of their music never fit into a coherent whole -- there's a shapeliness to Making Dens that suggests the record was constructed from some inscrutable blueprint that's just naggingly out of reach. Repeated listens reveal the album's many quirky charms.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:44:36
- Main artists: Mystery Jets
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: 679 Recordings UK. Ltd.
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative & Indie
© 2006 Good and Evil / 679 Recordings Ltd. ℗ 2006 Good and Evil / 679 Recordings Ltd.
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