Jack and Jills
The Jack and Jills could be described as a band in flux. Born from the ashes of previous ensembles, the band spends its time jockeying between New York and St. Louis, installing new members to replace those who will spend the summer elsewhere. Add to this the band’s animated on-stage bobbing and the reciprocal head nods and toe taps they elicit from their audience, and movement and variation are the name of the Jack and Jills’ game.
It’s easy to attribute the band’s animation to youthful innocence—the band is only four months old and several of its members are too young to gain admittance to any 21+ show that’s not their own—but their exuberance is tempered, or perhaps informed, by a surprising knowledge of what else is out there, name-checking Sunset Rubdown and Kurt Rosenwinkel with equal ease.
The band’s frontman, Erick Lee, credits his savvy in part to the breadth and depth of music now available online, saying, “My favorite thing going in the music industry right now is the expansion of consumer choice. The major labels are losing their influence to the internet and people are starting to hear a lot more stuff…The result is more people that really enjoy music and more exposure for lesser known bands.”
So perhaps it’s best to stave off temptation and skip the comparisons, and say simply that the Jack and Jills track Old Ears is available for download here, free of charge.
Audio: Old Ears
July 1st, 2008 at 6:34 pm
This is my kind of music, thanks for sharing.
July 20th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
their song is pretty sweet
do you have a link to their website? (or do they not have one)