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UN15 - sold out | UN25 and UN36 still available from http://www.unlabel.net
Burn down the boys school is math rock yes, well of a sort, ripped, twisted and hammered into submission math rock, imagine 5style kicked into touch by a particularly un-playful Fugazi and then scared shitless by the Cravats, close but then even that doesnt get to the true heart of the Astronauts sound, (totally) wired and deranged I think well settle on, oh yeah with malicious guitars to boot. Flip the disc and you get the daunting and cheerfully titled Nice night for a knife fight kinda cheese and port party space jazz with Mark E Smith for the best part until someone realises they havent cranked up the guitars and then all hell breaks loose, troubled stuff indeed, but loveable with it. Another for the perfect record collection methinks." losing today
"Throbbing basslines and spiky riffs replete with the sort of insane barking commonly associated with the most frenetic of punk exports from the US-of-A. You will dance, though your ears will beg for a little balm to soothe the bleeding after all of a couple o songs. JatA are one of those bastard awkward outfits that genuinely defy simple categorisation. Perhaps they've made a conscious decision to avoid too many comparisons with the Brooklyn-based dance-punk elite? Maybe they were just born different from the rest of the whatever-punk/post-something pack? Ultimately, who cares? This is great stuff regardless of the inevitable where-to-rack-it head scratching."
drowned in sound
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