Gone to Texas, hell yes!
Stutterin' Steve | Planet Yee-Ha! | 11/08/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is flat out one of the most interesting records I've heard in a long long time. Jessica's Crime have made an aural-cinematic masterpiece for the new century, combining hard-rock, psychadelia and country into a swaggering, assertive, evocative slab o' wax. Well, plastic, since it's a CD, not an LP. This is a versatile band. From the opening Western techno-rock of Gone to Texas--which hits like a freight train of "awesome"--to the closing Texas (revisited) this album doesn't let up. There's no filler at all, and the songs *don't* all sound the same. This is a band that has made a fine album, not just a bunch of songs. Every song evokes a different mood--and let's not even talk about Westworld I-II and Westworld III! No, wait, let's--that trilogy of songs has to be one of the coolest things I've ever heard, moving from acoustic guitars to heaviness upon heaviness to chanting in some language I don't recognize to crazy Western slide guitar to what sounds like the soundtrack to a Clint Eastwood movie (the good kind with horses and guns and killings, not the boring ones with bridges and women and "talking"). That sequence alone is a major achievement, and the rest of the record is just as good--for Pete's sake, they somehow managed to combine country music with industrial dance (!?!) on Priest, something that shouldn't work at all, but does, really really well. I know it sounds ridiculous to praise a record this lavishly, but I've never heard anything like it. I feel like a schmuck for using all these exclamation points! This is rock music for adults, and I hope to hear more from the band in the future. Does anyone know if they have a website? All I can find is a myspace page.
The upshot of all this? Buy it you finks! Bands like this deserve to be supported, because God knows they're too good to get on the radio."
Track Listings (12) - Disc #1