Don’t you miss the ’90s? It felt like a quiet time, to be sure, but as one new book points out, the ’90s were actually pretty fucked up. But I wasn’t aware of that at the time, and neither were the members of Jarflower. Louis Menand at The New Yorkerargues that there was no catchy new mode of music or art or fashion to be forever and fondly associated with the times” but I don’t think that’s true at all. Jarflower’s jangly rock and lonesome songs call to mind an updated Gin Blossoms. Does the world need that? I dunno. But I do. And you probably do as well.
