Yes, at first listen they are typical JAR. There is a funky basis in their writing, frequent and appropriately eager rap entries, the music is textbook-like, it is elegantly refined by wind instruments, it alternates between three distinctive voices, pleasantly careless lyrics float along them and the songs are just the right length to be fun and not start to sound even a little clichéd.
But when you listen to the new album again, you can’t miss the musical moments that our natives wouldn’t quite expect from this group. The most important ones are placed at the end.
There are three music and word games, bonuses that will make you smile. In addition, such Drugs inadvertently remind us of the pre-revolutionary motif of the theme song of the Political Song Festival in Sokolov, in which the song was sung: “Just say Sokolov and you will hear a song…” The Sušick Children’s Choir, guesting at Drogy, sings: “Just say drugs and you will hear a song…”
But if we take these three pieces strictly only as bonuses, then the regular deviation from the traditional and expected sound of JAR is mainly in the song Posledni rváč, which has a straightforward rock drive. Right before it is actually the classic ballad Sedesát, and you can’t miss the boogie I’m already retired, in which the group JAR really suits it.
The authors of the music, led unswervingly by Roman Holý, deserve a tribute. Not only funk, but also other styles are adopted in terms of ideas for many years ahead. It is therefore difficult to come up with a revolutionary idea in music today, and no less difficult to come up with one that can at least be said to be good. However, however much this band’s music resembles what it has been part of in the past when listening to a basic fan, it has enough resources to be at least interesting.
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Album cover.
The means are age-old stylistic untetheredness, different-sounding voices in the singing and rap register, a rich instrumental cast and, last but not least, insight, experience and a real desire to surprise and attract attention.
Texts are once again among the essential weapons for news. The aforementioned The Last Brawler apparently gained a certain seriousness with the deviation from the traditional sound, but otherwise the lyricists are poetic and theatrically vulgar. This poetry is pleasing, in the case of JAR, also because it draws attention to each other in the interpretation of all three speakers of the words, and also helps to break the possible feeling that this band is constantly soaping it up.
However, a solid portion of vulgarisms also grabs attention. It’s obviously incorrect, but it’s usually funny and interesting because of the context in which it sounds. It also bears one more important fact. They belong exactly to people the age of the band members, and with this in mind, the album should be taken calmly as a generation statement at a specific time.
“Jesus Christ doesn’t exist?” is an extremely successful work of a band from which records better than the previous ones are not much expected, but which still has enough wild and attractive ideas.
JAR: Jezus Kristus neexistus? Warner Music, 60:17Rating: 90%
2023-08-28 03:15:52
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