Jaye Jayle – House Cricks and Other Excuses To Get Out LP

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Woodie Guthries famous quote became a mantra for young musicians who rallied around folks austerity, and later inspired a new generation of artists who basked in punks primitivism. Guthries songs may not be an influence on Louisvilles Jaye Jayle, but his call for simplicity as a deliberate choice versus a matter of mere ability resonated with the veterans of Kentuckys dark indie scene. Naming themselves Jaye Jayle as a pen name or a pseudonym to veer away from a traditional band moniker, the group sought to eliminate unnecessary variables and deconstruct their compositions down to their most concentrated essence. Jaye Jayle owe less to our nations roots music and more to peripheral rock bands that have taken the less is more attitude to its furthest reaches. Imagine Spacemen 3 without the saturated wall of distortion, or Neu! without the upbeat motorik pulse, or Lungfish without the shamanistic howls. But these reference points seem either too bombastic or too lush. Perhaps a nexus of The Troggs ham-fisted drumming, Angels of Lights ominous twang, and Suicides swaths of negative space hits closer to the mark, but even that doesnt do the band justice. Jaye Jayles debut album House Cricks and Other Excuses To Get Out is an exercise in tension and restraint, a tightrope act between singer-songwriter traditions and art rock experimentation, and an intersection of Southern cultural permutations and otherworldly sounds.