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"Review:Jinx Lennon-Trauma Themes Idiot times"

CONNECTED MAGAZINE

Jinx Lennon Trauma Themes For
Idiot Times *****




A punk poet in the vein of John Cooper Clarke,
Jinx Lennon's one of Ireland's greatest living
storytellers – a comedian, a preacher, a
troubadour and a rebel but, overall, a Celtic
Tiger philosopher. Track two, 'My Head Is Slowly
Disappearing Up My Own Arzzz' sets the tone
wonderfully. 'Protect Thyself And Home' argues
that everyone has the right to 'stick a knife
into the eye' of burglars. Nobody can listen to
Jinx Lennon and not be affected. Instantly he
becomes your best friend, your blood-brother,
your cooler cousin; giving priceless advice in
this fucked up world



- Connected Magazine


"Review :Trauma Themes Idiot Times"

HOT PRESS :TRAUMA THEMES IDIOT TIMES



27 Mar 2009

Genre straddling, punk poet/MC/musician/stark raving madman returns to the fray with the gonzoid stylings of TTrauma Themes Idiot Times and it just goes to show that even though the Dundalk native may be growing older, he’s certainly not getting any mellower. Definitely not a record for the faint of heart, our hero’s eclectic songbook takes in influences from Joe Strummer to NWA and uses badly sampled beats, raw as an open wound guitars and screams, wails and grunts as percussion. However, if you think that sounds like a recipe for disaster, then think again.

You seeJinx is a true diamond in the rough. Once you get past the confrontational delivery, you’ll hear the beating heart of a true poet who skillfully uses music to underscore his cautionary tales (‘Protect Thyself And Home,’ ‘Taxi Man Face’). He also peppers his songs with a large dollop of humour (‘The Men Who Saved The Face Of Football’) and the record is as absurd as it is ambitious. Once again, Forkhill’s Paula Flynn (that’s just outside of Newry for those who don’t have a map handy) lends her honeyed vocals to Jinx’s witch’s brew and she helps sweeten Lennon’s more sour moments. WhileTrauma Themes Idiot Times mightn’t be everyone’s cup of tea, there’s no doubting that the performer is one of the most unique and daring artists to emerge from Ireland in quite some time. If you fancy a walk on the weird side, then pick it up.

4/5

Edwin McFee

- Hot Press Magazine


"Review :Jinx Lennon -Know Your Station Gouger Nation!!!"

'JINX LENNON'
'KNOW YOUR STATION GOUGER NATION!!!


Our Rating:
JINX LENNON comes from Dundalk, a small manufacturing town in Eire, just south of the border with Armagh. He is a deliriously angry poet. He's an inventive, soulful musician and an inspired social commentator.

The 20 tracks on this album are a blistering set of Steve Bell drawings, got up as MARK E. SMITH songs with VAN MORRISON Celtic Soul and Anticon rap poetry. His head-spinning virtuoso delivery scorches along from dense poetic rant to hypnotic mouth sounds and deep Nashville singing. He notices, names and shames our worst crimes, our hair loss and our grubby streets and then forgives them. He entertains, educates, maddens and inspires. He should be on the telly every night.

"Coming up next on the Ten O' Clock News, JINX LENNON excoriates out sinful consumerism, with an affectionate speedball meditation on the word styrofoam, yeh!"

Somehow I've made this sound a bit worthy.

Well forget that. JINX LENNON does real music, real poetry, real agit-prop rap and real performance. This isn’t some whimsical bleater with a beat box and a few cute lines. This is heavy duty up-there-with-the-best, smugness-shattering, literate assault rifle ammunition. And it sings like a bird too.

There are a couple of lovely songs where Paula Flynn's rich voice softens the mood. The links with Irish folk song and American country music bubble up to the musical surface and pour ancient balm into the wounds of contemporary despair. St. Brigid's Shrine is a mysterious song about the disruption of jealousy and the abstract love for things and people we have lost. I think it is. With the (deviant) children's chant "Fireplace-itis" It will make you cry and laugh just long enough to be ready for the megaphone street yelling of "S.U.F.Y. Hospitals" (stand up for your hospitals!) and the live ambience of "Accept Yr Hair Loss". This potential Comedy Club self-mockery routine suddenly turns a blade to the stone and glints menacingly with "I started to realise no one gave a shit about me and my hair. They had their own wells of misery."

Maybe the virtuoso track is "The Flesh Taxi", a sleazy knowing electro pop drone that stamps on the cocktail glasses of a depraved Saturday night and crushes them with a boot into the late night gutter of globalising criminality and miserable sex.

To put it another way. Every time you think you have Lennon parcelled up as a category he shreds your misconceptions, turns out the contents of your pocket (and maybe stomach too) and slaps you on the back with the tattooed hand of human warmth.

A special mention, too, for the Pogues echo of "You Are No Scumbag". I would like this as my Christmas song for 2006 and onwards please. It's a lilting, hesitant waltz with a trumpet, extra voices and "big shiny balls" in every hall. "no need to feel that you a toerag. You-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ou are no scumbag". With a street brawl thrown in.

Yeh.

www.jinxlennon.com


- Whispering and Hollerin


Discography

3 albums

2006:''Know your Station Gouger Nation!!!"
2003: "30 Beacons of Light for a land full of Spite,Thugs,Drug Slugs,and Energy Vampires"
2001:"Live at the Spirit Store"

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