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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. Zootime 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 Zootime that suggests the record was constructed from some inscrutable blueprint that's just naggingly out of reach. [Zootime was constructed using 9 songs from the band's UK release Making Dens and three others (including the energetic romp "Scarecrows in the Rain") taken from singles and EP releases].
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
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Mystery Jets, Producer, MainArtist - Kapil Trivedi, Composer - IMAGEM LONDON LIMITED, MusicPublisher - Stephen Blaine Harrison, Composer - Henry William Cope Harrison, Composer - Kai Christian David Fish, Composer - William Blaise Benwell Rees, Composer
2007 Dim Mak Inc. 2007 Dim Mak Inc.
Mystery Jets, Producer, MainArtist - Kapil Trivedi, Composer - IMAGEM LONDON LIMITED, MusicPublisher - Stephen Blaine Harrison, Composer - Henry William Cope Harrison, Composer - Kai Christian David Fish, Composer - William Blaise Benwell Rees, Composer
2007 Dim Mak Inc. 2007 Dim Mak Inc.
Mystery Jets, Producer, MainArtist - Kapil Trivedi, Composer - IMAGEM LONDON LIMITED, MusicPublisher - Stephen Blaine Harrison, Composer - Henry William Cope Harrison, Composer - Kai Christian David Fish, Composer - William Blaise Benwell Rees, Composer
2007 Dim Mak Inc. 2007 Dim Mak Inc.
Mystery Jets, Producer, MainArtist - Kapil Trivedi, Composer - IMAGEM LONDON LIMITED, MusicPublisher - Stephen Blaine Harrison, Composer - Henry William Cope Harrison, Composer - Kai Christian David Fish, Composer - William Blaise Benwell Rees, Composer
2007 Dim Mak Inc. 2007 Dim Mak Inc.
Mystery Jets, Producer, MainArtist - Kapil Trivedi, Composer - IMAGEM LONDON LIMITED, MusicPublisher - Stephen Blaine Harrison, Composer - Henry William Cope Harrison, Composer - Kai Christian David Fish, Composer - William Blaise Benwell Rees, Composer
2007 Dim Mak Inc. 2007 Dim Mak Inc.
Mystery Jets, Producer, MainArtist - Kapil Trivedi, Composer - IMAGEM LONDON LIMITED, MusicPublisher - Stephen Blaine Harrison, Composer - Henry William Cope Harrison, Composer - Kai Christian David Fish, Composer - William Blaise Benwell Rees, Composer
2007 Dim Mak Inc. 2007 Dim Mak Inc.
Mystery Jets, Producer, MainArtist - Kapil Trivedi, Composer - IMAGEM LONDON LIMITED, MusicPublisher - Stephen Blaine Harrison, Composer - Henry William Cope Harrison, Composer - Kai Christian David Fish, Composer - William Blaise Benwell Rees, Composer
2007 Dim Mak Inc. 2007 Dim Mak Inc.
Mystery Jets, Producer, MainArtist - Kapil Trivedi, Composer - IMAGEM LONDON LIMITED, MusicPublisher - Stephen Blaine Harrison, Composer - Henry William Cope Harrison, Composer - Kai Christian David Fish, Composer - William Blaise Benwell Rees, Composer
2007 Dim Mak Inc. 2007 Dim Mak Inc.
Mystery Jets, Producer, MainArtist - Kapil Trivedi, Composer - IMAGEM LONDON LIMITED, MusicPublisher - Stephen Blaine Harrison, Composer - Henry William Cope Harrison, Composer - Kai Christian David Fish, Composer - William Blaise Benwell Rees, Composer
2007 Dim Mak Inc. 2007 Dim Mak Inc.
Mystery Jets, Producer, MainArtist - Kapil Trivedi, Composer - IMAGEM LONDON LIMITED, MusicPublisher - Stephen Blaine Harrison, Composer - Henry William Cope Harrison, Composer - Kai Christian David Fish, Composer - William Blaise Benwell Rees, Composer
2007 Dim Mak Inc. 2007 Dim Mak Inc.
Mystery Jets, Producer, MainArtist - Kapil Trivedi, Composer - IMAGEM LONDON LIMITED, MusicPublisher - Stephen Blaine Harrison, Composer - Henry William Cope Harrison, Composer - Kai Christian David Fish, Composer - William Blaise Benwell Rees, Composer
2007 Dim Mak Inc. 2007 Dim Mak Inc.
Mystery Jets, Producer, MainArtist - Kapil Trivedi, Composer - IMAGEM LONDON LIMITED, MusicPublisher - Stephen Blaine Harrison, Composer - Henry William Cope Harrison, Composer - Kai Christian David Fish, Composer - William Blaise Benwell Rees, Composer
2007 Dim Mak Inc. 2007 Dim Mak Inc.
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. Zootime 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 Zootime that suggests the record was constructed from some inscrutable blueprint that's just naggingly out of reach. [Zootime was constructed using 9 songs from the band's UK release Making Dens and three others (including the energetic romp "Scarecrows in the Rain") taken from singles and EP releases].
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:48:26
- Main artists: Mystery Jets
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Dim Mak Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative & Indie
2007 Dim Mak Inc. 2007 Dim Mak Inc.
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