It’s always intriguing when an interesting band somehow makes one of the most uninteresting albums of 2014. Andrew Jackson Jihad– attention getting from the get go with their bonkers and frankly genius name– has long had a knack for making transgressive music while remaining silly and raw, which is something my archenemy Mac DeMarco still hasn’t figured out, despite what all of the 20-something middle-class white kids think. The opening line of their previous album, the criminally underrated Knife Man, starts simply with “The Michael Jordan of drunk driving played his final game tonight.” But with the opening track of Christmas Island we’re treated to the nonsensical line “Open up your murder eyes/and see the ugly that spat you out,” a stanza that means nothing unless you’re a high school kid that hates your EDM-obsessed classmates.
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