Usually when you see an album boast nine songs, you wouldn't consider it an EP, not even in the fast-paced world of hardcore punk. When those nine songs, however, clock in under a mere ten minutes…then the listener has to double-check the CD player to make sure he got all nine in there. After a few more detailed listens, this casual listener was quickly transformed into and avid fan who couldn't find his repeat button fast enough. Ten minutes at a time just doesn't seem like enough Jumpercable for me now.
This band is from, literally right up the road, from my apartment in Absecon, New Jersey. Yet, either by some cruel twist of fate, or perhaps my recently declining presence in the local scene, I have never before heard of this group. And here I am going on a full hour with this ten-minute CD playing on constant 'repeat' and I still am not sick of this EP yet.
Jumpercable feature a ferocious, speed-crazed rhythm section overlapped by slicing guitars that aren't afraid to chug-along with the bass at times. The vocals have that hidden gem quality, the kind of performance that reveals new little nuances every time you listen. Spencer's vocals are throaty, scratched and strained yet feature a subdued melody that was always apparent in more melodic hardcore bands like Kid Dynamite or even Ensign during their Nitro days. As for overall sound, think of a cross between Youth Of Today, Ensign and Floorpunch.
