Музыка и песни Jail Weddings / Jail Weddings на LP

If they aren't L.A.'s biggest band, Jail Weddings definitely have L.A.'s biggest sound-an nine-person-deep rock n' soul revue that feels like the Pogues as produced by Phil Spector, a soundtrack to a Hollywood-gone-Babylon left unloved and unexplored since the last notes of X' Los Angeles LP. Their 2010 full-length Love Is Lawless was gigantic, the kind of thing that should be a film (directed by Billy Wilder) but becomes an album instead. L.A. Weekly correctly called it "a big, fine mess of weepy, quavering, hiccupy hurtin' hurt, plowed through with a way-tough punk rock theatricality and welcome good humor." Now Jail Weddings return with a leaner line-up and a new EP called Four Future Standards. Recorded through the fall and winter of 2011-2012 by Mark Rains (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Waylon Jennings), Four Future Standards reinforces frontman-architect-drill sergeant-and-mad-genius (oh, and singer) Gabriel Hart and his returning core members . And this time, the songs (in a way) are all love songs : The raging Scott Walker-meets-Ziggy Stardust cabaret rocker "Overnight," or the collision of Gun Club guitar and Shangri-Las melodrama that lets "Good Book" make death into the break-up to end all bitter break-ups, or the punked-up Del Shannon-style story of regret and revelation in "Red Light Rhythm." Or especially "(There's Nothing Worse In The World Than A) Crying Girl," an unflinching last-call operetta that could have been written by Warren Zevon, produced by Nick Cave and recorded by Roy Orbison . but only after a bleary night playing Iggy Pop's "Turn Blue" until the needle gave out in a wisp of smoke. In these four songs are love as sickness, love as delusion, love as warning, love as righted wrong or wronged right-even love as total helplessness before impending doom, as seen through the lens of an upturned bottle. LP limited edition red vinyl, dropcard download with bonus tracks: 4 SONGS from Jail Weddings: Live at The Hobby Shop (recorded June 2010 Record Label: Neurotic Yell Style: Independent