Andrew Jackson Jihad

People Who Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World

[4/5]


To say this album lives up to the darkly comic promise of its title is, by all accounts, an understatement. One track (“Bells & Whistles”) starts with “I have often wondered, if a pregnant woman is decapitated, will the baby survive?” And that seems tame compared to “Bad Bad Things.” Yowled in the voice of a cold-blooded serial killer by frontman Sean Bonnette, it paints a vivid bloodbath just to hit you with “If I don’t go to hell when I die, I might go to heaven, but probably not.” That twisted sense of humor colors nearly every highlight as the aptly titled Andrew Jackson Jihad top their dysfunctional folk-punk with some interesting production choices, occasional insights and a singer born to deliver uncomfortable truths and even darker bits of fiction in the same demented howl. (ASIAN MAN) Ed Masley