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fave it Punk | Math Rock
11 tracks | 44 minutes
Released Feb 2007
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:02 Prelude lyrics BUY MP3 01:02 Prelude lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:02 Prelude
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:33 Parachute lyrics BUY MP3 02:33 Parachute lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:33 Parachute
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:55 Deadline lyrics BUY MP3 02:55 Deadline lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:55 Deadline
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:50 Interlude lyrics BUY MP3 02:50 Interlude lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:50 Interlude
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:54 Human Sacrifice lyrics BUY MP3 02:54 Human Sacrifice lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:54 Human Sacrifice
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:03 Escape (This is not a Song) lyrics BUY MP3 06:03 Escape (This is not a Song) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:03 Escape (This is not a Song)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:36 Iron Steed lyrics BUY MP3 01:36 Iron Steed lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:36 Iron Steed
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:45 Building Tomorrow's Slums Today lyrics BUY MP3 04:45 Building Tomorrow's Slums Today lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:45 Building Tomorrow's Slums Today
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Punk rock for the expanding mind.
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Listen to a podcast interview from the Houston Chronicle website:
http://images.chron.com//content/chronicle/ae/music/band/podcasts/jonx.mp3
Review from the Houston Chronicle:
By Sara Cress
January 24, 2007
The Jonx opens No Turn Jonx Red, its second full-length album, with a minute of ragged guitar noise that sounds like a band revving its engine. Think of it as a warning: This may not always be pretty, but it will be compelling.
When the screeching stops, the band launches into Parachute, a rock song with the closest thing to pop hooks you'll hear from an avant-garde punk band. This sets the tone for an album that juggles punk, pop, math rock, noise, screams, and political and cultural statements.
↓ more ↓Standouts include Island, with its slow build-up and quick poetry ("We want to say it's wrong to kill / The words we have no longer will"); Cashews, bassist Trey Lavigne's weird self-portrait that starts with basic facts and swells to something more surreal; and Building Tomorrow's Slums Today, a driving, spoken-word squall decrying urban sprawl.
The fact the Jonx — which includes Lavigne, Daniel Mee on drums and Stu Smith on guitar — is able to do this without a hint of pretension is admirable. The band doesn't rely on arty vagueness, nor boring noodling; this is solid rock with brevity and punch. Even discordant moments are engaging in these hands.
The band has grown tremendously since its early EPs. The songs on No Turn Jonx Red are cohesive, and the lyrics are purposeful. The tighter playing is showcased especially well on The Scent of Earth, the 12-minute instrumental that ends the album. Add the band's powerful, spare live show, and the whole package points to one of Houston's most-inventive hard-rock bands.
This is a complicated collection to be sure, but there's nothing so difficult about the Jonx's music that should keep the band playing to just the smart kids on the Houston music scene. It's time for everyone else to take notice.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/music/local/cd/4493083.html
Review from the Houston Press:
By Brett Koshkin
January 25, 2007
Four years and four releases after their start, it's still tough to pin down the sound of The Jonx. Maybe it's the unique time signatures that rampantly chug through the rock trio's recordings. Or maybe it's the ever-alternating vocal duties, which flutter from spoken word to grating dissonance.
Their latest release, No Turn Jonx Red, which again finds no one band member fronting the vocals, is best when they just shut up altogether. The first two minutes of "Escape (This Is Not a Song)" are a lush, delay-drenched dream. The song finally finds the band slowing its tempo and giving a glimpse of sleek aural beauty, if only for a brief moment. Before the listener can take it in, Trey Lavigne's vocals come roaring along with rolling bass riffs. Three songs later, The Jonx return to instrumental works with "The Scent of Earth," a 12-minute lesson in math rock that could make Steve Albini blush.
All in all, No Turn Jonx Red keeps listeners on their toes. Rough around the edges, the group refuses to lose the grit that keeps them distinguished from other bands. And unconcerned with fitting in with other musicians, they write whatever music they want to and explore avenues others just wouldn't dare.
http://houstonpress.com/2007-01-25/music/the-jonx/
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