"Jedi Jane Cocaine Collision are really starting something of a revolution, both in Belfast and anywhere else they lay their grubby amps. Their sound is immediately thrilling: part Part Chimp, part Kyuss, part Talking Heads, part Chemikal Underground, part Lightning Bolt, part heavy-end White Stripes. However, unlike most multi-genre cult-favourite bands (e.g. The Cooper Temple Clause), the sound is less a smartly chosen mixtape, more a finely prepared korai curry of inventive rock and it all holds together rather well. The live show is, to say the least, animated; body movement can be coolly stationary or heavily convulsive, the same songs sound utterly different depending on who, if anyone, decides to sing them, with little to no rest in between them, and abuse is infrequently shouted at the drummer, a system which seems to keep things tight as robot hugs amidst the riffs and screeches. "
Review for 1st demo in Alternative Ulster Mag
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"Hugely promising debut recorded offering from this Belfast-based quartet. Three taut and punchy tracks simmer with the ramshackle scuzz of the mid-90s American college rock scene but manage to reign in the urge to wig out by bowing down to the power of the melody. On this evidence, future live showings are well worth checking out."
Review for 1st demo in the Irish Times by David Roy
"Onwards to the excellent Jedi Jane, guitar wielding youths in thrall to Sonic Youth, Trail of Dead, Jetplane Landing and loads of other top grubby noise merchants. Having finally blagged a copy of their selftitled EP at a recent show, I’m happy to report they’re clearly able to distil their often jagged and sprawling live attack into a coherent recorded form. Lead track, If It Pleases You, Surprise Me, rocks out in a solid fashion. The enigmatically titled F begins broodily enough with twin guitar clanging over a moody bassline,
before the whole thing erupts into a howling chorus. Cue a twinkling Sonic Youth-esque arpeggiated guitar break before - you’ve guessed it - another even louder blast of sonic violence. Grrr! Finale We Collide rounds things off with another jagged post-hardcore love note, a salad of frantically wrestled guitars, machine gun drum rolls and bass riff heroics that’s reminiscent of those other Thurston Moore worshippers, Seafood. The final track, St Dragon, wasn’t actually included on my CD, but is available for your listening pleasure on their MySpace page at www.myspace.com/jedijane (where you can actually download all of these songs, albeit at in crap 128 kbps mp3 form). Although it ends abruptly, I’m sure it could easily be expanded into a 23 minute freakout with the stomping of a delay pedal. Having successfully slayed the crowd at last weekend’s NING event in London, Jedi Jane’s next live appointment is in Derry at Mason’s Bar on May 11. Please do make the
effort to check them out."
