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Artist:The JAC

Genres:
  • Electronic
  • Indie
  • Pop
Perth, WA

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Track: Love Dumb by The JAC
Track: Love DumbGenres:
  • Indie
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    Track: Going Down by The JAC
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      About

      There must be something about Western Australia, maybe it’s the isolation or maybe it’s just in the Swan Lager but over the years some great pop, power-pop and punk-pop has worked its way over the border. –The Dugites, Loaded Dice, Hoodoo Gurus and The Stems just to name a few and Joe Algeri (Jack And The Beanstalks, The Britannicas, Green Beetles) and his one man band The JAC are definitely adding to that pedigree with his latest effort Faux Pas. Eleven tracks of impure pop that always drift a little left of centre, Faux Pas kicks off with 'I Play All The Instruments' - "“I can be a one man band/I can play everything with a single hand/There are no fights 'cause I always get it/And I can take all the credit"” which should tell you straight away that Joe is having fun here and his mix of The Kinks, 70s British pop, new wave, Robyn Hitchcock and Todd Rundgren makes for one hell of a sweet album. There’s backward masking, the odd tip of the hat to The Beatles, some great punk pop in ...

      Members

      Joe Algeri - vocals/guitar Dave Wallace - guitar/vocals Jason Cleary - bass/vocals Mark 'Sid' Eaton - drums/vocals

      Sounds Like

      Power-Pop from a band that hates the term.

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