Icelandic teens with potty mouths Jakobinarina’s second single – a limited-edition vinyl release – is a wickedly enjoyable, Mates Of State meets Maximo Park in a Hafnarfjoedur back alley with broken bottles and crowbars in their palms, romp, pure and simple. If ‘Jesus’ wasn’t so peppered with naughty words it’d be a shoe-in for a top ten spot in some parallel dimension’s cooler-than-thou singles chart; y’know, where the highest new entries are the best new entries. What’s that you say? Single edit version? Oh, you spoil sports.
Worry not, though, fans of turned-blue air and rough-edged, fuzzed and fucked production values: flipside ‘Filipino Girl’ is as wonderfully pop as its companion track, albeit with those keyboard licks replaced by Rocket From The Crypt guitars pulling surf moves at a drive-in cinema in the late ‘50s – it’s all first wave of teenage cool cool, bouncing and buzzing and as toe-tappingly ace as anything Timbaland’s lent a beat or two to this year. “I say rock you say roll… c’mon baby, feel my soul”… the simplest things in life, often, are the most refreshingly awesome.
jesus
is very very good. looking forward to seeing them at great escape
they are incredible live
4 realz
Jakobinarina
Play Kingston on July 19th.
New Slang. The Works.
Yeah!