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Listening to Julep is like grooving around the back roads with Jenny Lewis riding shotgun and the Throwing Muses in the back seat, all singing along to Exile in Guyville. You’ll find yourself taking the long way home and waiting in the driveway for the last note to fade away.
"this will happen again" is the debut EP of wife-husband team Jen Fox (vocals, bass) and Jim Srnec (guitar)—a showcase for their unique brand of sharp, literate, indie rock. The six-song album is a collage of the personal and the political, delivered with self-conscious humor and a stunning pop sensibility. Fox and Srnec co-wrote all six songs, and their intelligence and dedication to good, solid rock come through on every track.
The record launches with “Paris to Istanbul,†a post-punk response to a new and uneasy American identity. Fox’s voice reaches out over Srnec’s driving guitar lines, hitting high notes hard and growling through the low end. “Helen of Troy†rebuilds an epic on a mix of Latin rhythm and anthemic power pop. The closing track, “Selfish,†shifts from mournful to defiant with skillful misdirection and ends the album with Julep’s most characteristic trick, serving up hard ideas with a sweet dose of optimism.
