10/20/2025
Heather the Jerk and Jacket Burner review on 12XU
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Heather the Jerk - Very Motorcycle - ep. 7"
Beats me what being particularly "motorcycle" is supposed to entail (having two wheels and a motor and drinking gasoline i think…) but i can say with more confidence that i like Heather The Jerk tunes a lot better when they're very motorcycle than when they're not so much, as this this new EP has been the missing data point for me to determine as much from its fuzzy little bubblegum-infused garage punk- and noise pop gems that come across like a mixture between the only great pop punk group in the world - i'm speaking of Fastbacks, of course - and the eighties noise-/fuzz pop masterpieces of early The Primitives singles, helped along in no small part by an impeccable bundle of new tunes propelled forward by what's no doubt the most eager performance we're heard of them so far.
****
Jacket Burner - Eat S**t + Die - LP
Okay here's some new s**t of this, apparently, newly UK-based dude who's supposed to be from Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico originally, which is a real town actually but a quite small one at that and thus i'm just gonna say that statistically… Yeah to be honest, i don't know if there's any truth (or consequences for that matter) to anything the Bandcamp bio tells me about Jacket Burner. There's little doubt about the qualities of his new LP though, which comes with his strongest batch of tunes to date and once again gets the maximum oomph out of tried-and-tested oldschool garage punk formulas that kinda feels like the basic traits of Buck Biloxi, Spits, early Sick Thoughts and Bart and The Brats being boiled down into strong and exquisite shots of poison with a striking note of '77 and KBD-related simplicity.