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Stream Andrew Jackson Jihad’s New Album “Christmas Island”

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Andrew Jackson Jihad 
Arizona folk-punk band Andrew Jackson Jihad (coming to LPR on June 14) are about to release their new album Christmas Island this coming Tuesday, but you can listen to it right here, right now (via The A.V. Club):
 

 
Here’s an excerpt from The A.V. Club‘s take on the album:
 
“[Singer/guitarist Sean] Bonnette uses the first few seconds of ‘Temple Grandin’ to fake out the audience, as his strumming of an acoustic guitar quickly gives way to a rush of keyboards, drums, and reverb freakouts. What follows can’t help but feel like the product of Jeff Mangum writing an album during a vivid fever dream, and it’s all the more fitting given that ‘Children Of God’ was the product of such an experience, with Bonnette noting he ‘actually wrote [it] when I had a fever. I was watching this vampire movie, and I just read the Wall Of Voodoo chapter in Songwriters On Songwriting, and I got to come up with some imagery I really enjoyed.’ It’s these bright, bouncy bloodbaths that prove even as the band’s grown, Andrew Jackson Jihad hasn’t lost its subversive edge.”
 
The colorfully unsettling cover of Christmas Island doesn’t hurt their case either!
 
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Christmas Island 
Get your tickets for Andrew Jackson Jihad’s 6/14 show at LPR here.
 
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