The Jam "Sound Affects" 2024-08-30 travelling from teenager to teenager

travelling from teenager to teenager via cassette dub after cassette dub

chilling title track that is as haunting as it is heavy they cover a lot of sonic territory

even calling it a "hardcore classic"

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corporate nature of modern society

The Jam "Sound Affects" 2024-08-30 travelling from teenager to teenagerMusically this draws heavily from Revolver era Beatles. The psychedelic touches are spare, but the guitar and basslines echo the tone of the Beatles '66 release. Lyrically, Weller moves away from the storytelling he'd become so adept at and uses more poetic forms. "Man in the Corner Shop," for example, is a brilliantly formed lyric that describes a community's chain of envy, and "That's Entertainment" creates images that stick in the mind long after