Labels: Rugger Bugger
Review by: Andy Malcolm
I think this has been out a while now, but what the hey, Rooger Booger just got some new copies in on CD, so I thought I’d pick it up while I had the chance.
For anyone who lives in a cupboard and doesn’t own music replay equipment, Jesse features some bloke called Frankie Stubbs, I think he was in some band that just reformed last year and that might have a new single coming out on Crackle one day. And this Stubbs guy has a distinctive rasping voice, which he uses to fine effect on this on this CD.
Yeah, Jesse are rather similar to the bits I have heard of Leatherface in a lot of ways. It’d be hard to have Frankie writing, playing guitar on and singing the songs, and then for the band to sound completely different. 14 tracks of emotive punk and mid-paced melodic hardcore, featuring standout songs like the awesome “Indestructable” which has a soaring chorus that’ll lodge itself in your memory for some time.
There are also some very poignant, more acoustic style songs on here, and the fusion of Frankies cracked vocals, and some very personal, touching lyrics make this album way more ’emo’ than practically all of the 3rd rate, popular-band-immitating ‘contenders’ that got picked up for that so-called document of the up and coming ‘scene’ on “Emo Diaries 3”, pshaw.
The production is a little raw and ropey at times, but even so, the songs sound great, and I guess the main purpose of this CD was just for Frankie to get a record out, so it’s not that important anyway.
Worth having, for sure.