Learning to Swallow Sand, by Jones Harrington & The Mobbleheads

Learning to Swallow Sand

by Jones Harrington & The Mobbleheads

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1.	Street Wise 02:10	info	buy track
2.	Hear 01:43	info	buy track
3.	Day To Day 03:28	info	buy track
4.	Insignificance 03:49	info	buy track
5.	Back To You 02:30	info	buy track
6.	The Procrastinator 01:31	info	buy track
7.	Hit The Ground 02:57	info	buy track

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Engineered, mixed, and mastered by John Hoffman at ultrasuede studios. Cincinnati OH. between 11/26/2017 and 11/29/2017.

Plucked right off of his warm bar stool at The Riptide in Marblehead, MA comes Jones Harrington and the Mobbleheads, with a batch of degenerate rock numbers recorded at the legendary Ultrasuede Studio in Cincinnati, OH.

An immutable persona of piss-ant rock n' roll conduct, Harrington has been churning out earnest guitar music since his fingers have allowed it, and in an effort to transfigure his output after several released collections with his group the Offwhites, chose to head to Cincinnati in late November 2017 to do a record with friends John Hoffman, Jerry Westerkamp, and Dylan McCartney from the Ohio group Vacation-- also recruiting fellow North Shore reprobate Anthony Bogdanawicz from The Switzerlands to accompany him on the task.

A few days later (with the help of untold bottles of grog, a couple hundred ciggies, and some stinky desto) the group had learned, recorded, and thusly spawned seven songs, engineered by Hoffman.

Lead by Harrington's monged caterwaul and penchant for gut-wrenching Westerbergian melodies, the seven songs cover a lot of ground-- at times veering towards ferocious spazz punk a la Greg Sage on Ritalin in tracks like "Hear" and "The Procrastinator", other times with the power pop cordiality of Harrington's hometown heroes The Neighborhoods, The Outlets, or Willie Loco Alexander on tracks like "Back to You" and "Street Wise".
Harrington and Bogdanowicz's crackerjack guitar work melds well the impermeable rhythm section that Westerkamp and McCartney provide-- the band plays with the boozey temerity of The Clash circa "Stay Free", with just as much consequence. An oozey wound of rockin' pus collected in a shot glass for any libertine worth a damn to suck down.

Smell my groceries.

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released February 19, 2019

Jones Harrington
Stoney
Dylan McCartney
Jerome Westerkamp
John Hoffman

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