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jj72 | I To Sky

Disappointing average rock album.
CD, Sine

Tekst: Norbert Pek

Publicatiedatum: 04 oktober 2002

The young indie rock trio JJ72 debuted in 2000 with their titleless album and scored immediately. The singles October Swimmer and especially Oxygen were successes, and, additionally, the rest of the album (especially Algaria) showed that the band from Dublin was something to keep in focus. The band's trademark is the voice of Greaney, which registers somewhere between Matthew Bellamy's (Muse) and Brian Molko's (Placebo). Another trademark is the arrogance of the band members. Short live shows with bored faces onstage, and the volume always so high that audiences leave gigs with a high peeping tone in their ears. Well, they had their debut album as a backup, so they must have thought it would give them the right to act that way. But what to do when the second album doesn't seem to reach the heights of the debut? I To Sky starts surprisingly with the one-minute piano song Nameless, which turns out to be completely different from the rest of the album. The tracks aren't as distinguishable as could be wished for. Not that they are bad, but they don't have anything substantial to make the recording more than an average rock album. First single Formulae already gave this perspective: just nice, but not astonishing enough to give them the credit of being an upcoming sensation, as some expected two years ago. The best thing JJ72 does on this album is the loudest, Serpent Sky, which starts with a Placebo-like guitar riff. But this one track won't stop I To Sky from becoming just another guitar band release. And now they start losing the credits they gained; next time onstage, they'd better smile.

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