Written By Willy The Knight
Score /10
I just don’t get what these guys are trying to do. Johnny Whitney and Cody Votolato, members of the (now defunct) Blood Brothers, are releasing their sophomore album Hologram Jams but I wasn’t impressed with the first album so I hoped that this follow-up would be more structured and filled with better quality songs. Listen, simply put I don’t know what these guys are trying to make. Without trying to make too many comparisons to The Blood Brothers, these guys are both great musicians, and have written some amazing songs but I don’t know what this is.
What am I supposed to call this album? Electro? Electro-rock? I guess. The songs are structured like electro-pop songs, but give a listen to a track like, “Don’t die alone” and you begin to wonder what the hell they were trying to make. I’ll give them credit for making chord progressions I wouldn’t have thought could go together. But I think I’m right when I say their chord progressions shouldn’t go together.
Johnny Whitney’s voice has always been high and shrill, but the voice in this album makes me cringe. He is often times off key, and his attempt at singing Janice Joplin’s – Piece of my Heart makes me wish I had just listened to it at my local karaoke bar. The singing sucks.
The songs are not dance-able and that is a huge thing for electronic music. You need to be able to make people dance and I’m sure Jaguar Love delivers a very strong live performance, but I don’t know how people can really get into moving and dancing with the songs that this album bestows.
If they hadn’t been in one my favorite bands before, I would have passed by this album like it was nothing. From such great writers I expect better material. I’m happy that they’re making music that they love to write, and sharing that with fans, but old fans will dismiss this album, and I just don’t believe this album will bring any new ones.
Get To Know Jaguar Love and buy the album:
http://www.myspace.com/jaguarloveband
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I agree.