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• Artist: The Adventures of Jet
• Album: Muscle
• Label: Suburban Home
• Year of Release: 2003
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-04-17

The Adventures of Jet is a Dallas, TX based band that got together back in 1998 when their former band, Bobgoblin folded. Their debut CD called Part 3: Coping With Insignificance managed to get noticed all the way to Germany and ended up on a lot of top of 2000 lists. Muscle marks a return for the band with even juicier power pop sounds complete with synthesizer. The synth is nice for a couple of tracks but I find that it get on my nerves after a while with it's whininess. The band writes decent pop tracks and keeps an unlikely theme of muscle cars as the album's central tone. "Fairlane", "Run Charger", "Drag", and "Flaming Ghost" give you an idea of what the songs are called. It's hard to pinpoint any outstanding tracks because they all start to sound the same with the synthesizer in the mix. A suggestion to the band would be just to use the instrument in the odd chorus rather than throughout the entire album. The songs are well written but the genius is hidden.

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