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READY THE JET:
New Record Highs: CD
You know the scene: the members of Spinal Tap are meeting with their manager to assess what went wrong. Their request for a nineteen foot replica of ....Stonehenge yielded a nineteen inch version of the same. The design was right, but the scale of the model was way off. New Record Highs suffers a similar fate. The plan looks good—Post-Hüsker Dü Bob Mould or Taang-era Lemonheads—but the scale, the magnitude, is a fraction of what it needs to be. The guitars are soft and watery where they need to be harsh and massive. The tempos are easy going where they need to be frantic. “New Rules for June” and “Your Cinema” would have made a good single—they’re faster, more aggressive—but the other songs are too small. End result: a disc in danger of being trampled by dwarves. –Mike Faloon (No Effort, myspace/readythejet)

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IIssue No. 62.

By Neal Agneta

If a band that has one foot in '80s Minneapolis and the other in Nova Scotia, Canada circa 1993 sounds appealing to you, then by golly, L.A.'s Ready the Jet fit the bill, dead-on. While the trio's mid-fi tact harkens back to indie-rock glory days of yore, New [New Record Highs] isn't a wholesale throwback. If anything, RTJ will make you a little wistful for the time when Husker Du and Dino Jr. ruled college airwaves. In fact, I almost had to do a double take to assure myself that Bob Mould himself wasn't peeling off the slashing power chords on the all-too-brief "Powerline City." Leave it to front man Matt Brooks to make certain that the precise amount of crunch, feedback, and sweet melodicism courses through the vein of every inspired track that lends itself to this excellent 38 minutes.