Take Me to the Sea
Jaguar Love
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Highways of Gold | Jaguar Love | 3:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Bats Over the Pacific Ocean | Jaguar Love | 3:44 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Jaguar Pirates | Jaguar Love | 4:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Georgia | Jaguar Love | 5:56 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Vagabond Ballroom | Jaguar Love | 3:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Humans Evolve Into Skyscrapers | Jaguar Love | 3:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Antoine and Birdskull | Jaguar Love | 3:42 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Bonetrees and a Broken Heart | Jaguar Love | 3:37 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Man With the Plastic Suns | Jaguar Love | 4:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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My Organ Sounds Like... | Jaguar Love | 5:07 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Videotape Seascape (Bonus Track) | Jaguar Love | 4:49 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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iTunes Review
Johnny Whitney’s got such a distinctive voice (early punk seasoned with barbed wire dragged on glass) it’s hard not to be reminded of the band — Blood Brothers — he worked with for so long. But where Blood Brothers were all hyperkinetic fury, Jaguar Love is more restrained, a carefully contained chaos with a slight indie-pop undercurrent. Cody Votolato of the Blood Brothers is here on guitar, and Jay Clark of Pretty Girls Make Graves plays a variety of instruments and ends up at the recording/engineering helm as well. Whether it’s Clark’s influence, coming from the slightly more docile PGMG, or whether it’s a natural progression for Whitney and Votolato, the friendly fire of Jaguar Love leaves a mark, but one that heals quickly. “Highways of Gold” and “Jaguar Pirates” have the pop-sting of Sleater-Kinney, with hair-raising vocals atop see-sawing, bucking guitars, pulsing keyboards and heavy-bottomed drums. “The Man With the Plastic Suns” is a melodramatic, keyboard-driven overture, and “Bats Over the Pacific Ocean” is a relentless, kick drum-thumping number, filled in with roiling piano and twinkling xylophones. There's a measure of fun and experimentation here that makes Take Me to the Sea a joyride.
Customer Reviews
What Head Automatica was to glassJAw
I was kind of hoping for something better from Johnny Whitney. The Blood Brothers and Neon Blonde put out great albums that were always pushing the envelope. Jaguar Love just seems to be very surface level pop with not many interesting parts or lyrics. There are some good tracks on here, but overall just not a strong album. One of my favorites is the bonus track Videotape Seascape, oddly enough. It really is akin to Daryl and his work from glassJAw to Head Automatica. Both Johnny and Daryl have started with really progressive, influential bands only to retreat to more basic pop. Nevertheless, I'll still buy or at least give a listen to anything Johnny touches.
Taking back the rad world
Take Me to the Sea is simply amazing. My copy of the album arrived about a week ago in the mail, and I could not be happier. This is definitely NOT the Blood Brothers, which in the end turned out to be a good thing. I was worried that the new sound Johnny Whitney was creating would be too hard to adjust to, but it turned out perfect. Every song is great, so make sure you buy the whole album. My three favorites are "Jaguar Pirates", "Humans Evolve into Skyscrapers", and "Bone Trees and a Broken Heart".
I wanted to like this... I really did....
They just don't pull it off. I loved the Blood Brothers, and Neon Blonde, but Johnny is just trying too hard. He sings about the same themes over and over again (fire, and abstract situations that don't make sense as displayed in "bats over the pacific ocean). I guess I will have to settle for past lives, because this just won't do.
Biography
Genre: Alternative
Years Active: '00s
Top Albums and Songs By Jaguar Love
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Highways of Gold | Take Me to the Sea | 3:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Jaguar Pirates | Take Me to the Sea | 4:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Polaroids and Red Wine | Hologram Jams | 3:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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I Started a Fire | Hologram Jams | 3:56 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Bats Over the Pacific Ocean | Take Me to the Sea | 3:44 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Bonetrees and a Broken Heart | Take Me to the Sea | 3:37 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Tricerisaurus Hex (Bonus Track) | Hologram Jams | 4:36 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Humans Evolve Into Skyscrapers | Take Me to the Sea | 3:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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My Organ Sounds Like... | Take Me to the Sea | 5:07 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Cherry Soda | Hologram Jams | 3:17 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
