Less Than Jake, ‘B is for B-sides’
By user • Jul 27th, 2004 • Category: Album Reviews
Every high school senior is rushing to the store as you read this.
Less Than Jake has made a career by writing songs about getting out of its hometown of Gainsville, Fla. The irony is the guys are all in their 30s and able to move if the town is really as bad as they have led us to believe on records such as “Losing Streak,” “Hello Rockview,” “Borders and Boundaries” and last year’s “Anthem.”
The band now has compiled songs that didn’t make onto the final mixes of 2003’s release and proves like so many bands before: B-sides are such for a reason. The band continues to lessen the use of its horn section and distance itself from the curse of Ska, but ultimately breaks no new ground.
But it won’t matter to its ever-changing influx of 17-year-old fans.
Northern Star, July 27, 2004
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