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Bivouac (CD)

By: Jawbreaker (Artist)

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Jawbreaker Artist Snapshot:

When the dust clears, it's quite possible that Jawbreaker will be viewed as one of the most influential punk bands ever. Contemporaries of Green Day prior to that band's ascendency to mega-stardom, Jawbreaker and its enigmatic frontman Blake Schwarzenbach introduced a sense of literate intelligence, musical adventurousness, and genuine emotional honesty (read: emo) to the righteous pogo-inducing fury of punk rock. Jawbreaker broke up shortly after the release of their 1995 major-label debut, DEAR YOU, but the band left in its wake a legacy and a blueprint that have been often imitated, but never quite duplicated. One of a kind indeed.

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DISC 1 for Bivouac (CD) Album By Jawbreaker (Artist)
1   Shield Your Eyes
2   Big
3   Chesterfield King
4   Sleep
5   Donatello
6   Face Down
7   P.S. New York Is Burning
8   Like A Secret
9   Tour Song
10   You Don't Know
11   Pack It Up
12   Parabola
13   Bivouac
 

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Review

Alternative Press (4/93, p.67) - "...for the first half of BIVOUAC [Blake Schwarzenbach] makes proper use of his skills...but [Jawbreaker] start to stretch things out, losing momentum by letting songs slip and sprawl over four and five minutes..."

Title Note

Jawbreaker includes: Blake Schwarzenbach.

Reluctant emo-punk icons Jawbreaker followed up their promising debut UNFUN with the sprawling, challenging BIVOUAC. A thrift store epic that showcased the mighty trio's brains, guts, and muscle with equal aplomb, BIVOUAC represented a harmonious co-existence of poetic observation and crashing post-hardcore noise without sacrificing either. Expanding on UNFUN'S bursts of musical exploration, the band worked through gnarled compositions lined with feedback and propped up by the powerful, rumbling rhythm section. The songs are too gritty to be progressive, but far more adventurous than those on your average punk record.

Songs such as "Big," "Donatello," and "Like a Secret" feature atypically cryptic, sophisticated lyrics that hint at crippling alienation and educated malaise without tipping their hand. Singer/lyricist Blake Schwarzenbach still delivers his literary musings in a raw-throated rasp, here modulated by gentler moments reflected in the music. The album's sheer size is imposing, but lighter moments like the rough-spun romance of "Chesterfield King" and tragicomic road anthem "Tour Song" keep things from becoming oppressive. No punk band was ever so successful at portraying emotional honesty through fragmented language and sheer volume, and Jawbreaker's impressive legacy is well represented by BIVOUAC, their most ambitious album.

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