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Single Reviews
Single Review: Less Than Jake – Abandon Ship (Cooking Vinyl)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 10 November 2008
I have never met anyone with three-chord sympathies who despises Less Than Jake. They’re always about, finding themselves on all sorts of festival bills belting out their pop-punk ska harmonies to hundreds of sun-drenched receptive teenagers. Theirs is the music of summer, the music of youth, yet their bodies – if not their sound – have matured 15 years since they first started this malarkey. There are times when saying a band have not really progressed in so long is a bad thing, but with this release LTJ are holding stalwartly onto the sound that keeps them young. Previous albums – pretty much everything since ‘Hello Rockview’ and ‘Borders & Boundaries’ – have seen them losing their edge and kind of going through the motions, but ‘Abandon Ship’ is vintage LTJ. The Peter Pans of punk are back, and no matter how much Wendy complains, the dreadlocks are staying. ME
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