Archive for 2005.10

Sat 2005.10.08

Reviewed in 002 Magazine

The Return of the Death of the Legacy of the Revenge of the Jonx gets reviewed in 002 Magazine.

It’s a little hard to read the web image so here’s the full text:

Years and years ago, before any of you read this magazine (because it didn’t yet exist) there was a band in Houston called Dyn@mutt. They were a 3-piece outfit that wrote songs reminiscent of the late California punk band The Minutemen; they were sorely overlooked, even by Houstonians, and they were great. The guys in The Jonx know this story because they were friends with Dyn@mutt. Now they have taken their place – as one of the most underappreciated bands in Houston. Yes, they sound a lot like The Minutemen, too, but unlike Dyn@mutt, The Jonx translate *much* better to disc, and though their songs might have a thousand little twists to them, they aren’t built on them. These are really pop songs, and this is a really, really fun record – all tight and fast like an old SST punk record of which you always figured you owned the only copy because nobody ever talked about it. “Orange Like the Future,” with some of the best pop moments on the album, could serve as a sort of table of contents for the band – possibly even since their inception. And that’s saying something, because The Jonx have gone through an almost wholesale series of changes in the past couple of years – rising from the ashes of losing two key band members (and replacing them with one) and yet emerging as a band that a) to these ears, doesn’t sound the same at all, and for that matter b) sounds way better, way more melodic and way more focused. Maybe that’s the impetus behind that album title?

–Lance Scott Walker, 002+ Magazine, October 2005