Half Divorced, by Pissed Jeans

Half Divorced

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Alastair Chivers There isn't a bad Pissed Jeans record, which is some feat. This feels like the most complete to me and the sounds of a band that still snarl at and enjoy music. Favorite track: Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt.

Greg Swallow YASSSSS THE BOYS ARE BACK! And this is quickly becoming my favorite Pissed Jeans album. I want to smash my own furniture right now but I already had to re-buy all my shit since getting divorced so I won't.

Steve Quixote love this- as a divorced, fucked off, bald, fat, middle aged, suicidal cunt. aaaaarrrrrrgggggjhhhhhj!!!

Johnny Ripped 213 All bangers. Every tune is immediately (and immaculately) relatable. Anyone who says they can’t relate to at least three songs is lying. Plus, the riff mangling with pop hooks? Yes please and the PJ rhythm section remains 100% Unfuckwithable Favorite track: Everywhere Is Bad.

siamotuttiapezzi Probably my favorite PJ record. The boys really outdid themselves with this one. Fast, furious and dare I say 'pop punky'. In a word: it's amaze-balls.

E.P. Favorite song, so hilarious, only recently found out about Pissed Jeans, bought it all; sorry I missed y'all's LA show! Favorite track: Everywhere Is Bad.

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1.	Killing All the Wrong People 02:19	info	buy track
2.	Anti-Sapio 01:40	info	buy track
3.	Helicopter Parent 02:54	info	buy track
4.	Cling to a Poisoned Dream 01:29 video	info	buy track
5.	Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt 01:54	info	buy track
6.	Everywhere Is Bad 03:35	info	buy track
7.	Junktime 05:31	info	buy track
8.	Alive With Hate 01:36	info	buy track
9.	Seatbelt Alarm Silencer 01:27	info	buy track
10.	(Stolen) Catalytic Converter 01:51	info	buy track
11.	Monsters 01:24	info	buy track
12.	Moving On 04:28 video	info	buy track

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Pissed Jeans has never been a band that goes halfway—they’re known for their feral vocals, biting lyrics, buzzsaw guitars, and unhinged live shows, and their sixth album, Half-Divorced is no exception. These songs skewer the tension between youthful optimism and the sobering realities of adulthood, and when viewed through frontman Matt Korvette’s scowl, everything takes on a level of violent absurdity.

Pissed Jeans’ notorious acerbic sense of humor remains sharper than ever as they dismember some of the joys that contemporary adult life has to offer, from helicopter parents to stolen catalytic converters to being $62,000 in debt. On “Seatbelt Alarm Silencer,” Korvette growls, “Call it a death drive but that ain’t fair / Drive implies I’m headed somewhere.”

So where does a band like Pissed Jeans go after nearly twenty years of making music, after becoming fathers, after marriages, and after divorces? Existence has festered to a boiling point. Korvette said, “Half-Divorced has an aggression within it, in terms of saying, I don’t want this reality. There’s a power in being able to say, I realize you want me to pay attention to these things, but I’m telling you that they don’t matter. I’m already looking elsewhere.”

Even within the brutality that Korvette conjures on songs like “Killing All the Wrong People” (“If violence is now their form of play / Let’s aim em towards those who made em that way”), the energy on some of these songs is inadvertently, well, fun. Listening to this album will give even the most jaded nine-to-fiver the sense that unrestrained freedom is still possible. And who else is going to rhyme “colonizer” with “moisturizer” anyway?

Korvette, Brad Fry (guitar), Randy Huth (bass) and Sean McGuinness (drums) weren’t in any rush to finish Half-Divorced, which was recorded by Don Godwin at Tonal Park in Takoma Park, Maryland. “We’re not the kind of band that bangs out a new record every two years,” Korvette said. “Pissed Jeans is truly like an art project for us, which is what makes it so fun.” This lack of restraint rages within the songs that unexpectedly veer into classic hardcore punk territory—often coming in at under two minutes long and erupting like the “butane tank explosion” Korvette sings about in “Junktime.”

This distilled energy makes Half-Divorced sound menacing and dangerous. Korvette said, “We realized we’d never really fucked with pop punk, and we thought, this is something that isn’t going to be immediately recognizable as cool. So let’s challenge ourselves to make it feel cool to us.”

There’s also a Pink Lincolns cover, “Monsters,” on which Korvette sings, “People are more hideous than monsters.” And in the last song, “Moving On,” Korvette sneers, “Cheesing into my cameraphone / Pretending that I’m not alone / Life’s the first thing that we all postpone.” One gets the sense that Pissed Jeans refuses to “postpone” life in quite the same way—life, like art, is something that happens now, not later.

The word “divorce” falls in line with the moments of humiliation and shame that are held up for all to see on this album. Korvette said, “If you say something enough or if you just allow it to exist publicly, then it loses its evil monster-in-the-closet thing.” There is clarity to be found within both the light and the dark, in both the marriage and the divorce. As the chorus of the last song calls out: “I’m moving on, I’m moving on, I’m moving on.”

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