Jawbreaker

24 Hour Revenge Therapy

  • MOG Editorial Review

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    In the mid-90s, unbeknownst to many, San Francisco pop-punk band Jawbreaker was creating a scene. Featuring highly emotional lyrics coupled with guitars that melodically chugged along, 24 Hour Revenge Therapy helped give birth to the genre that would later be called emo. Lead singer Blake Schwarzenbach’s harsh vocals called further attention to the unusually poignant punk songs. “Do You Still Hate Me?” put to record the inner thoughts of anyone that’s ever been dumped, and “Boxcar” challenged wannabes while denouncing themselves as ever having subscribed to the politics of the genre. 24 Hour Revenge Therapy is Jawbreaker at its best... After all fearlessness is what motivated Schwarzenbach to put his bravely poetic words to record during an era when their peers were writing juvenile bathroom jokes.
  • AMG Review of 24 Hour Revenge Therapy

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    Mike DaRonco
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    More trials and tribulations than an average episode of #Melrose Place, Jawbreaker continues to explore their personal struggles on their third album, fittingly titled 24 Hour Revenge Therapy. Continuing on the Jawbreaker tradition of poetic lyrics that provide a mental image to each song, the band deals with their endeavors through music instead of wallowing in them, making this record not entirely bleak. "Do You Still Hate Me," for example, has the persona dishing out the friction of a relationship gone sour through talking to the person in question: "I wrote you a letter/I heard it upset you/How can I do this better/We're getting older/But we're acting younger." Being critiqued and ostracized from their scene during the height of their popularity was another headache singer/songwriter Blake Schwarzenbach dealt with around the time this album was released (their previous album, Bivouac, provided them with a huge cult following). This no doubt inspired the song "Indictment," which talks about not caring what anyone thinks of their songwriting ("I just wrote the dumbest song/It's going to be a singalong/Our enemies will laugh and be pointing/It wont bother me, what the thoughtless are thinking"). Providing the perfect flow of temperamental pop to go along with these stories is proof enough that 24 Hour Revenge Therapy is the pivot of Jawbreaker's creative output.

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