Artist: School Jerks
Album: Nothing Else 7"
Release: 2009
Label: Riff Raff
Tracklist:
1. Nothing Else
2. Stray
3. Passed Out
Now listen here kids, I usually have zero motivation when it comes to blagging on about a record I’ve been listening to, and I really have to love the record to even begin to bother with the affair du blog. I was fully prepared to phone-in one sentence on this one. It would have read something like this: “This is way the fuck better than whatever Adam is telling you to listen to.” A fully true statement, but the editors here at ICDT INC. have demanded that I put forth a little more of that good old fashion American high school graduate effort and spill at least a paragraph of words out on this miniature hardcore opus. So here goes…
School Jerks is a newer band from some guys who apparently played in the underrated and in my mind amazing Terminal State from Toronto Ontario Canada. This is snotty no frills ’81 hardcore worship, really basic and to the point, exactly the way it should be! This comes off with a more honest sound due in part to the mostly sub par delivery of the music. Kind of crappy recording quality paired with hastily written songs that barely break the one-minute marker. To some this may sound like criticism, but really, this is 100% praise. It is so rare that I hear a new hardcore record and get overly excited about it to the point that I just have to play it on repeat. This is one of those records for me. And the best part, it’s easy to buy! What the fuck else do I need to tell you? I’m tired of holding your hand: download these songs, fall in love, then go buy the fucking record already! (Available from Deranged and Criminal IQ to my knowledge.)
Also, it would be wise to pick up their follow up EP on Cowabunga Records as well, you dummy.
Download Here
Buy Here
-Evander Holywar
Album: Nothing Else 7"
Release: 2009
Label: Riff Raff
Tracklist:
1. Nothing Else
2. Stray
3. Passed Out
Now listen here kids, I usually have zero motivation when it comes to blagging on about a record I’ve been listening to, and I really have to love the record to even begin to bother with the affair du blog. I was fully prepared to phone-in one sentence on this one. It would have read something like this: “This is way the fuck better than whatever Adam is telling you to listen to.” A fully true statement, but the editors here at ICDT INC. have demanded that I put forth a little more of that good old fashion American high school graduate effort and spill at least a paragraph of words out on this miniature hardcore opus. So here goes…
School Jerks is a newer band from some guys who apparently played in the underrated and in my mind amazing Terminal State from Toronto Ontario Canada. This is snotty no frills ’81 hardcore worship, really basic and to the point, exactly the way it should be! This comes off with a more honest sound due in part to the mostly sub par delivery of the music. Kind of crappy recording quality paired with hastily written songs that barely break the one-minute marker. To some this may sound like criticism, but really, this is 100% praise. It is so rare that I hear a new hardcore record and get overly excited about it to the point that I just have to play it on repeat. This is one of those records for me. And the best part, it’s easy to buy! What the fuck else do I need to tell you? I’m tired of holding your hand: download these songs, fall in love, then go buy the fucking record already! (Available from Deranged and Criminal IQ to my knowledge.)
Also, it would be wise to pick up their follow up EP on Cowabunga Records as well, you dummy.
Download Here
Buy Here
-Evander Holywar
15 comments:
pretty cool, a little raw for my liking.
one of my favorites from last year. great guys-ivan just sent me the new 7" 2 days ago and it's just as great! it's too bad that when they played in brooklyn recently that landlords/white suns didn't really promote the show better than they did. school jerks played to a crowd of like 10 but still ripped everyone's faces
I didn't even know about that show or I would have gone.
-Adam
Nice. Sounds like a band from one of my mix tapes in 1988 of some obscure HC band. I dig.
The 2nd 7" is very solid indeed, but the production quality of the 1st one really takes the cake. I can't wait til they release another record or 5.
With a little searching you can find a live set from a show in Toronto and the demo, both worth tracking down the mp3s of,
-Evander Holywar
Love this record, love the cover art even more I think.
The cover art cracks me up. bored kid drawing a swastika on his desk. epic.
too bad they are terrible.. but i appreciate the toronto love
terminal state was awesome, post some of that sometime if you got it, i miss those dudes. looking forward to this too.
andrew
best three and a half minutes i have spent in a while.
Andrew,
I'll run it by the editors and see what they think about the idea. I'd love to spill my thoughts on the debut terminal state EP on this forum.
Will,
I know right?
-Evander Holywar
I guess i hear the poison idea, but its a little too loose for my tastes. I'm conflicted though, because the no frills delivery and production is a bit refreshing.
Thanks for the support. On our Myspace there's mp3 links and art for all our records. We'll hopefully play NYC again sometime mid-May.
www.myspace.com/schooljerks
schooljerks@gmail.com
This 45, as well as their second are fuckin' killer. But...the first one is by far my fave of the two. Passed Out is constantly on repeat. You should check out and upload Sexual Slurs - Yr Everything I Hate on here, some raw, kick-in-the-face Punk Rock 'N Roll from a few years ago on Solid Sex Lovie Doll Records.
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