Taking cues from Drive Like Jehu and the Hot Snakes, Jr Ewing plays visceral rock & roll that is physical and unrelenting. Ride Paranoia is no Nordic garage rock revival — it’s a wound-up and bursting-at-the-seems buzz of guitar rock, feedback, pounding beats, and screaming vocals. “Naked Pavements” cuts like Jawbox thrashing angularly over a buried melody and “Pre Summertime Blues” smashes and grooves with an energy worthy of At the Drive-In. “Sweet” is almost out of control enough to be the Locust but settles into a Blood Brothers or Refused-like unwieldiness. Jr Ewing might be a mainstay in its home of Norway, but can be considered one of the most formidable new groups to grace the United States in 2003. – Charles Spano
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| 01 |
Repetition Is Failure |
2:40 | ||
| 02 |
When You're Gone |
1:51 | ||
| 03 |
Midnight Episode |
2:20 | ||
| 04 |
Naked Pavements |
3:21 | ||
| 05 |
Pre Summertime Blues |
2:18 | ||
| 06 |
A Case Of Evacuation |
2:43 | ||
| 07 |
Laughing With Daggers |
2:45 | ||
| 08 |
Sweet |
2:43 | ||
| 09 |
Electric Yesterday |
2:34 | ||
| 10 |
The Exact Same Thing |
3:00 | ||
| 11 |
4:00 Am |
1:40 | ||
| 12 |
An Introduction To ... |
2:47 | ||
| 13 |
... Ride Paranoia |
3:41 |