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29 January 2004
The Wednesdays, You Will Gasp and They Will Breathe (Reservation)
For a group that dishes out ten amped-up rock songs in less than 23 minutes (That's right, this album is really short, about EP length), the Wednesdays have tunes in their songs. Usually, though, their serviceable melodies are attached to standard shards of youthful alienation and slacker discontent expressed in lines like "You wanted everything but you can't get nothin' from me" or "Try to communicate where a river stinks from the open tomb/ That feeds her" (Pardon?). But "Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover's Hands", about being 13 years old, making out in a rundown car, and not caring if the rest of the world goes to hell (like an adolescent garage rock version of Prince's "1999"), is a song that Jack White needs to get his hands on.
— Peter Su
.: posted by Editor 9:23 AM
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