Album review: Jebediah mature and bloom on the expansive Oiks
Jeff Jenkins
STACK Writer
Jebediah's latest lands like a harpoon in the heart, but it'll also hit you in places that you didn't know needed that special kind of sonic acupuncture.
At a glance
Jebediah's new album Oiks arrives this week
It's the Perth alt-rocker's sixth album, and sees the four-piece widen their stylistic horizons to embrace lush, reflective pop alongside jagged rock
Jebediah’s first Top 50 hit was called Leaving Home. They’ve been around so long, chances are their kids are now leaving home.
Thirty years after they formed, there’s no doubt Jebediah have matured.
Oiks, their sixth studio album, is the band’s most musically adventurous offering so far. See the range on display through opening track Bad for You, second single Rubberman, and closing cut Aqua - Lung find the four-piece in a reflective mood. Though they’re certainly still capable of being snotty and spiky; check out The Slip, Start Again and IWANNAGETOUT.
”Been waiting a little too long,” Kevin Mitchell sings in the album’s riotous first single, Gum Up the Bearings. And yes, here’s hoping we don’t have to wait another 13 years for the next Jebs record.
Oiks by Jebediah drops via Cooking Vinyl.
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