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- Date Released: August 15, 2000
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Emo
- Label: Jade Tree / Touch And Go
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We Say...
Following the Jets’ gloomy, often cryptic debut, Four-Cornered Night is the aural equivalent of a window shade snapping up to flood a basement apartment with daylight. Blake Schwarzenbach still sometimes casts himself as the victim of failed relationships, but on songs like “You’re Having the Time of My Life,” the band’s bright bounce and tangled guitars, heavily indebted to Rubber Soul/Revolver-era Beatles, thump him out of his sulkiness. The predominant tone on songs like “Little Light,” which captures the intimacy conveyed by a lover’s mixtape on a nighttime road trip, is more winsome than despairing, and Schwarzenbach’s ballads, often piano-based, reach out to friends and fellow travelers with a message to make the best of painful situations. On the closing number “All Things Good and Nice,” a quiet, heartfelt enumeration of his blessings, Schwarzenbach answers critics of reserved optimism with a wise and mature admonition: “Don’t confuse your truth with your pain.”
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They Say...
Leaving his punk roots completely behind him, Blake Schwarzenbach, former singer/guitarist for Jawbreaker, plays it very sweet on Four Cornered Night, the second record from his slightly arty indie rock project Jets to Brazil. His songs have always been melodramatic, even Jawbreaker's most fiery, emo-punk classics like "Chesterfield Kings" or "I Want You." But with Four Cornered Night, he indulges in the sort of over-the-top sentimentality that is more reminiscent of a lengthy novel by Proust than anything you'd expect from a rock band. But these ballads do rock at a lazy pace, and while "All Things Good and Nice" is too sappy and self-centered, other numbers like "In the Summer When You Really Know" and "Pale New Dawn" are lovely, heartfelt beauties and among the best tunes Schwarzenbach has ever penned. With Four Cornered Night, it is obvious that Schwarzenbach is making exactly the sort of record he wants, and though his old punk fan base has long since fled, indie kids go bonkers over his more sensitive side, as they should.
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| 01. |  |
You're Having The Time Of My Life |
3:26 |
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| 02. | |
One Summer Last Fall |
5:03 |
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| 03. | |
Air Traffic Control |
2:45 |
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| 04. | |
Pale New Dawn |
4:59 |
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| 05. | |
In The Summer's When You Really Know |
6:17 |
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| 06. | |
Empty Picture Frame |
3:59 |
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| 07. | |
Little Light |
3:39 |
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| 08. | |
Your X-Rays Have Just Come Back From The Lab And We Think We Know What Your Problem Is |
4:18 |
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| 09. | |
Milk And Apples |
2:54 |
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| 10. | |
Mid-Day Anonymous |
4:01 |
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| 11. | |
******* |
1:23 |
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| 12. | |
Orange Rhyming Dictionary |
5:48 |
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| 13. | |
All Things Good And Nice |
5:32 |
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13 Total Tracks, 54:04 Total Length
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Credits
- Alan Douches - Mixing Engineer // Andy Goldman - Design // J. Robbins - Mixing // Blake Schwarzenbach - Guitar // Blake Schwarzenbach - Piano // Blake Schwarzenbach - Keyboards // Jeremy Chatelain - Bass // Jeremy Chatelain - Vocals // Jets to Brazil - Main Performer // Amy Domingues - Cello // Geoff Sanoff - Mixing Engineer // Chris Daly - Percussion // Chris Daly - Drums
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