“Good songs played by a straightforward rock trio will always find their
way into people’s playlists, regardless of what’s big at the
moment. The Jet Age provides exactly that.” – Pitchfork
“The D.C.-based band draw from the post-grunge inspiration of Sugar
and Bob Mould while exploring challenging rhythms like
the gleefully erratic Dismemberment Plan” – SPIN
“A band that grows more agile, more confident, more inventive
and more dynamic with each record.” –
The Washington Post“Although there’s a bit more gravity and grit in Tischler’s Jet Age riffs, the songs are still upbeat enough to satiate fans of the early ’90s Teen Beat catalog.” – DCist
Washington, D.C.’s The Jet Age are set to release their latest LP,
Destroy.Rebuild on
August 28 and the album is available now for pre-order via
BandCamp and
iTunes.
DCist caught up with The Jet Age’s singer/guitarist Eric Tischler to discuss the record and is running a premiere of “I Wrote You This Song” from
Destroy.Rebuild. DCist says “There are plenty of songs on this album that refer to the omnipresent destruction, violence, and general awfulness in the country over the past 12 months, but this straightforward tune is definitely on the “Rebuild” end of the spectrum. Tischler’s vocals are mixed highly over the riffs that swing melodically during the verses and crunch mightily over Pete Nuwayser’s fast drum fills on the chorus so that the love song won’t be buried.” Stream “I Wrote You This Song” and read the full interview
here.
Earlier this summer SPIN Magazine premiered “It Cuts Both Ways” from the album. SPIN called the song “exquisitely tense,” and said, “‘It Cuts Both Ways’ is an uphill battle of restraint and grit between its verses and chorus. Lead singer Eric Tischler’s vocals linger over subtle jazz-influenced drums, before erupting and consequently being pummeled by tremendous distortion.”
Over the years, the D.C. trio have shared the stage with
The Wedding Present,
The Constantines, David Kilgour, Ladyhawk, Swervedriver’s Adam Franklin and more. The Jet Age will be performing at this year’s
At the Edge of the Sea Festival – taking place
August 29 and 30th in Brighton, England curated by
The Wedding Present. The band also just announced a hometown record release show on
September 12 at Villain & Saint in Bethesda, MD.
“It’s been another shitty year in America, another year where I got to really wonder what the hell I’ve gotten my kids into,” says Eric Tischler, songwriter, guitarist and singer for The Jet Age, about the inspiration behind his band’s latest record, Destroy. Rebuild. With more than one narrator seemingly lost at sea (as on the slow-boiling acid folk of “Who Will I Sing This Song For?” and the Can-meets-The Bats boogie of “Hand Upon the Throttle”), and The Who-meets-MBV rant “I Can’t Breathe,” it’s not surprising that many of the lyrics were written in the shadow of the U.S.’s 2014 midterm elections, the disturbing news cycle around Ferguson’s police force, and Eric Garner’s death. The new set of songs address peoples’ struggles to find their way home, and the themes feel more on point every day, given events like Sandra Bland’s mysterious death and Donald Trump’s rise in the polls.
The album’s closer, “Epilogue,” suggests the rebirth needs to begin with a kiss-right before its blistering two-plus minute guitar solo kicks in; so, all you need is love? “The flip side of all this depressing crap — including watching some other couples around me go down in flames — is that it’s really renewed my appreciation for the ways in which my wife and kids provide a port in the storm so, yeah,” he says, “it’s about relationships, it’s about the country, it’s about the band.”
“I felt like, on previous Jet Age records, I was increasingly distracted by the desire to write ‘types’ of songs and that maybe, after a string of ‘rock operas,’ I was shortchanging the emotional core of the songwriting with all these intellectual exercises,” he explains. “I figured, if we wrote an album full of songs that sounded like Stevie Wonder, Duran Duran, and The Small Faces, that I’d get those urges out of my system and I could find my way back to ‘my’ voice.” That record was 2014’s
Jukebox Memoir, and it might’ve remained unheard, as Tischler viewed it as a songwriting exercise, but once
Mark Gardener (Ride) and
Adam Franklin (Swervedriver) added vocals to the album’s shoegazing homage, Tischler felt the band had a “moral obligation” to share the recording of the two shoegazing titans harmonizing.
Fortunately, the entire record was pretty damn good and his initial plan of cleansing his songwriting palate seems to have worked, because, with Jukebox in the rearview mirror, Destroy. Rebuild sounds precisely like the moment when The Jet Age finally rebuild themselves in their own image, like a phoenix engulfed in flames and rising from the ashes of their previous selves, ready to give us the sounds and songs of revolution, and the hope for something better.
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