Released 1994 Producer Drive Like Jehu Release date 1994 | Recorded 1994 Artist Drive Like Jehu | |
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Studio Westbeach Recorders, Big Fish Studios Label Insomniac/Interscope Records Length original: ~53:20; re-release: ~1:09:58 Genres Post-hardcore, Emo, Math rock Similar Drive Like Jehu, Automatic Midnight, Suicide Invoice, Audit in Progress, Circa: Now! | ||
Drive like jehu yank crime 1994 full album hd
Yank Crime is the second and final album by the San Diego, California post-hardcore band Drive Like Jehu, released in 1994 by Interscope Records. It was the band's major-label debut and its artwork was created by singer/guitarist Rick Froberg. The band toured in support of the album but then quietly disbanded the following year as the members moved off to pursue other interests.
Contents
- Drive like jehu yank crime 1994 full album hd
- Reception
- CD track listing
- Vinyl track listing
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
In later years, as guitarist John Reis found international recognition with his band Rocket from the Crypt, a gradually growing audience began to pinpoint Drive Like Jehu's music as a catalyst for the eclectic San Diego music scene and the emerging national emocore scene of the 1990s. In 2003 Reis re-released Yank Crime on his Swami Records label, including on it the songs from the band's "Hand Over Fist" / "Bullet Train to Vegas" single and the original version of "Sinews" that had appeared on the compilation Head Start to Purgatory.
Reception
Ned Raggett of Allmusic gave Yank Crime 4½ stars out of 5, calling it "as worthy and awesome as its predecessor, losing not a jot in the change from independent to major label status." He also remarked on the album's significance to the emo genre, saying "Perhaps even more than [their 1992 debut album], Yank Crime solidified Drive Like Jehu's reputation as kings of emo. While use of that term rapidly degenerated to apply to sappy miserableness by the decade's end, here the quartet capture its original sense, wired, frenetic, screaming passion, as first semi-created by the likes of Rites of Spring." Brendan Reid of Pitchfork Media rated the 2003 reissue of the album 9.0 out of 10, remarking that "Opening an album with a song as bracingly great as 'Here Come the Rome Plows' would be a shot in the foot for almost any other band, with its snakepit verses and a chorus that goes from balled-up fists to open arms and back again before you can take a breath. 'Golden Brown' does the same in almost half the time. These more straightforward songs sting like snowballs packed with rock-hard chunks of melody, and in each case, Froberg's voice abrades the solid lines down to the bare minimum, and the band fills in the resulting space with pure venom." He also commented on the album's significance to emo, saying "It's often easy to forget that DLJ were considered emo in their day; Froberg's howls of 'Ready, ready to let you in!' on 'Super Unison' seem like a sick parody of stylish vulnerability. Then the song mutates into a gorgeous, snare-drum rolling open sea, and everything you've ever liked (and still like) about this genre in its purest form comes flooding back." The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
CD track listing
All songs written by Drive Like Jehu.
- "Here Come the Rome Plows" - 5:44
- "Do You Compute" - 7:12
- "Golden Brown" - 3:14
- "Luau" - 9:27
- "Super Unison" - 7:24
- "New Intro" - 3:32
- "New Math" - 4:06
- "Human Interest" - 3:24
- "Sinews" - 9:12
- "Hand Over Fist" - 4:24
- "Bullet Train to Vegas" - 2:40
- "Sinews" (original version) - 9:32
Vinyl track listing
- "Here Come The Rome Plows"
- "Do You Compute"
- "Luau"
- "Super Unison"
- "Golden Brown"
- "Sinews"
- "Human Interest"
- "New Intro"
- "New Math"
Personnel
Songs
1Here Come the Rome Plows5:43
2Do You Compute7:13
3Golden Brown3:14