{"id":4380,"date":"2016-06-02T07:20:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T11:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hcdistro.com\/store\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2016-06-02T07:20:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T11:20:08","slug":"jank-7-9-on-pitchfork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hcdistro.com\/store\/jank-7-9-on-pitchfork\/","title":{"rendered":"Jank &#8211; 7.9 on Pitchfork"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h2>http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/21915-awkward-pop-songs\/<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/21915-awkward-pop-songs\/\">&#8220;At their best, the Philly punk band JANK\u00a0highlights the connection between emo\u2019s fourth\u00a0wave and the unconventional, genre-spanning pop of the Dismemberment Plan or the\u00a0Unicorns.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0by Ian Cohen<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hgroup data-reactid=\".k6uah6cxs0.1.6:0.1.0.$21915\/=1$21915.0.1.0.0\">\n<h2 class=\"artists\" data-reactid=\".k6uah6cxs0.1.6:0.1.0.$21915\/=1$21915.0.1.0.0.0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcdistro.com\/store\/product\/jank-awkward-pop-songs-cd\/\">Jank \u00a0| Awkward Pop Songs<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/hgroup>\n<div class=\"album-art\" data-reactid=\".k6uah6cxs0.1.6:0.1.0.$21915\/=1$21915.0.1.0.1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcdistro.com\/store\/product\/jank-awkward-pop-songs-lp\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2.pitchfork.com\/albums\/23253\/homepage_large.8a968c3e.jpg\" data-reactid=\".k6uah6cxs0.1.6:0.1.0.$21915\/=1$21915.0.1.0.1.0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"labels-and-years\" data-reactid=\".k6uah6cxs0.1.6:0.1.0.$21915\/=1$21915.0.1.0.1.1\">\n<ul class=\"label-list\" data-reactid=\".k6uah6cxs0.1.6:0.1.0.$21915\/=1$21915.0.1.0.1.1.0\">\n<li data-reactid=\".k6uah6cxs0.1.6:0.1.0.$21915\/=1$21915.0.1.0.1.1.0.$labels-nolink-5095\">CREEP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"year\" data-reactid=\".k6uah6cxs0.1.6:0.1.0.$21915\/=1$21915.0.1.0.1.1.1\"><span data-reactid=\".k6uah6cxs0.1.6:0.1.0.$21915\/=1$21915.0.1.0.1.1.1.0\"> \u2022 <\/span><span data-reactid=\".k6uah6cxs0.1.6:0.1.0.$21915\/=1$21915.0.1.0.1.1.1.1\">2016<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"score-box \" data-reactid=\".k6uah6cxs0.1.6:0.1.0.$21915\/=1$21915.0.1.0.2\">\n<h1 class=\"score-circle\" data-reactid=\".k6uah6cxs0.1.6:0.1.0.$21915\/=1$21915.0.1.0.2.1\"><span class=\"score\" data-reactid=\".k6uah6cxs0.1.6:0.1.0.$21915\/=1$21915.0.1.0.2.1.0\">7.9<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p>Humor has a tenuous place in music, and actual \u201cjokes\u201d have almost none at all. It&#8217;s understandable: Most songwriting places a premium on some sort of basic honesty, and asking someone \u201care you joking?\u201d is usually a way to determine if they are\u00a0shitting you. Honest, earnest attempts to be funny, meanwhile, usually end up with the opposite result. So this is what <i>Awkward Pop Songs <\/i>knowingly puts itself up against\u2014its cover art and album title immediately establish its prank-punk bonafides and \u201cJANK\u201d itself is probably even sillier\u00a0than the<i><\/i><i><\/i>&#8220;Futurama&#8221;\u00a0reference frontman Matt Diamond used for his previous band: <a href=\"https:\/\/panuccispizza.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Panucci\u2019s Pizza<\/a>. But in the few months since its initial release and its physical reissue, <i>Awkward Pop Songs <\/i>has lived out a lyric from another <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/27916-das-racist\/\">trio<\/a> whose superficial goofiness was a Trojan horse for one of the most inventive, original and flat-out <i>fun <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/14662-sit-down-man\/\">records<\/a>\u00a0in its realm: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QVwnZMAgpT8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cSaw the cover of the tape, figured it\u2019s pretty wack\/later on eventually admitted that it\u2019s pretty crack.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As was the case with <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/27916-das-racist\/\">Das Racist<\/a>, local heroes <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/4567-ween\/\">Ween<\/a>, and even the Golden State Warriors, JANK\u2019s irreverence feels like an unlocked superpower rather than a defense mechanism or compensatory measure\u2014that they\u2019re having this much fun with their technically astonishing chops makes their subversion of <i>realness<\/i>\u00a0seem all the more amazing. Even more improbable is the number of styles in which they can operate: though the title <i>Awkward Pop Songs <\/i>is the least-clever aspect of the LP, it\u2019s an accurate descriptor for an overview of nearly every offshoot of \u201crevival\u201d emo that has coalesced into the new shape of alternative rock.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s plenty of the arpeggiated, hammer-and-pull guitar of the dubious, <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/76-american-football\/\">American Football<\/a>-fathered \u201ctwinkle\u201d subgenre, as well as the two-handed tapping that marks its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-4meXe1UxiY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">mathier<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i1dfVnlmx_A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">offshoots<\/a>. JANK can also veer towards hefty, <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/thepitch\/841-a-look-into-the-future-of-producer-will-yips-studio-4\/\">Will Yip<\/a>-approved <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/21676-tired-of-tomorrow\/\">emo<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/21794-white-hot-moon\/\">gaze<\/a> and sometimes it all happens within the <i>same song <\/i>(\u201cCaitlyn\u201d). Diamond\u2019s voice can elicit the instantaneous thrills of raw-throated, Midwestern emo and caffeinated pop-punk without the requisite adenoidal whine. In fact, the songs that most immediately sound like they&#8217;re crushing hard on someone<i>\u00a0<\/i>turn into surrealistic stoner talk: \u201cCaitlyn\u201d proposes a playdate of \u201cKatamari Damacy\u201d and late-night TV with an imaginary dog. \u201cWut I Liek Abt U\u201d cops the irrepressible, <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/21125-nothing-feels-good\/\">house party<\/a>\u00a0giddiness of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/21125-nothing-feels-good\/\">Nothing Feels Good<\/a><\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0its\u00a0whimsical, quotable non-sequiturs\u2014\u201cAnd you could use a new toothbrush!;\u201d \u201cTell me your favorite kind of dinosaur?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At its peaks, <i>Awkward Pop Songs<\/i> draws a fat highlighter on the connection between emo\u2019s fourth\u00a0wave and the unconventional, genre-spanning pop of <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/1093-the-dismemberment-plan\/\">the Dismemberment Plan<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/4436-the-unicorns\/\">the Unicorns<\/a>, bands whose manic, effusive, anti-cool styles soon were subsumed by more earnest, bombastic forms of indie rock. This aspect of JANK can make <i>Awkward Pop Songs <\/i>sound damn-near necessary in 2016\u2014if peers\u00a0like <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/31970-foxing\/\">Foxing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/31608-the-world-is-a-beautiful-place-i-am-no-longer-afra\/\">The World is a Beautiful Place &amp; I Am No Longer Afraid to Die<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/31939-the-hotelier\/\">the Hotelier<\/a> are stewards of the communally composed, broadly ambitious sound of mid-decade indie rock, they also have its tendency towards somber\u00a0intensity.<\/p>\n<p>But JANK kid because they love: the most impressive part of<i>Awkward Pop Songs <\/i>is that it\u2019s incredibly funny without sounding like it\u2019s ever making <i>fun <\/i>of anyone specific. Diamond&#8217;s\u00a0pop culture reference points are still cartoonish and broad\u2014\u201cOuran Highschool Toast Club\u201d tweaks the title of a popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/feature\/2015-09-02\/the-secret-revolution-of-ouran-high-school-host-club\/.92432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">parody of<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.ufl.edu\/imagetext\/archives\/v4_3\/darlington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>otaku <\/i><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.ufl.edu\/imagetext\/archives\/v4_3\/darlington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">culture<\/a>, while \u201cRace Car Bed\u201d nods at an overlooked\u00a0joke on the otherwise overexposed \u201cCan I Borrow A Feeling?\u201d episode of \u201cThe Simpsons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the best laughs are musical in-jokes and some have nothing at all to do with JANK\u2019s style of music. \u201cRace Car Bed\u201d also nominally \u201cfeatures\u201d a non-existent, presumably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factmag.com\/2013\/08\/15\/rise-of-the-sad-boys-from-kompakt-to-yung-lean-a-history-of-how-electronic-and-hip-hop-musicians-have-worn-their-sadness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#sadboy<\/a> parody Yung Goth Boi and \u201cLoading Screen\u201d might be a subtext-free goof on the retro-futurist fetishizing\u00a0of <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/28709-james-ferraro\/\">James Ferraro<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/thepitch\/773-pc-music-hipster-runoff-and-the-year-of-the-internet-hangover\/\">PC Music<\/a>. \u201cThe Hat Store\u201d strives to be this decade\u2019s \u201cCombination Pizza Hut &amp; Taco Bell;\u201d \u201cSpilt to Bill\u201d shouts out the similarly untamed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tiomt.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Island of Misfit Toys<\/a>and announces, \u201cif you don\u2019t like <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/500-built-to-spill\/\">Built to Spill<\/a>, then I don\u2019t fuck with you or anyone you know\u201d while sounding like a <i><a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/21096-theres-nothing-wrong-with-love\/\">There\u2019s Nothing Wrong With Love<\/a><\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>cut played at 78 rpm.<\/p>\n<p>The climactic moment of <i>Awkward Pop Songs <\/i>occurs when the happy hardcore of \u201cJ A N K!\u201d crumples into a heap for no discernible reason. And then, the most legit LOL a punk record has given me in ages: a group chant of\u00a0\u201cTHIS IS&#8230;A RIPOFF&#8230;OF A&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/31620-title-fight\/\">TITLE&#8230;FIGHT<\/a>SONG,\u201d knicking the melody of their emo-gaze turning point\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tu9KgGqXDyw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cHead in the Ceiling Fan.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0It doesn\u2019t come off like a joke at the expense of punk rock\u2019s most stoic bands, or really even the countless pop-punk acts who\u2019ve aped it\u00a0to establish a more \u201cmature\u201d sound. It&#8217;s more of a simple \u201cif if feel good, do it\u201d moment. Or, an acknowledgment that even if it&#8217;s only four years old, that&#8217;s a watershed classic, and thus, public domain. It\u2019s the same kind of open-ended communication and crowd participation that constantly pops up in hip-hop and pop music. Rather than shy away from people claiming their fans are<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JANKphl\/status\/732442139657932800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cmeme loving Tumblr kids,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0JANK say, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JANKphl\/status\/732442922918940672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cwe are too.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Is it any wonder that JANK can basically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sXftgHZn6Ak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">be their own backing band<\/a> at shows these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/21915-awkward-pop-songs\/ &#8220;At their best, the Philly punk band JANK\u00a0highlights the connection between emo\u2019s fourth\u00a0wave and the unconventional, genre-spanning pop of the Dismemberment Plan or the\u00a0Unicorns.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0by Ian Cohen Jank \u00a0| Awkward Pop Songs CREEP \u2022 2016 7.9 Humor has a tenuous place in music, and actual \u201cjokes\u201d have almost none at all. 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