Smiling Jackals flipped the mirror on our schadenfreude in Freakshow

Smiling Jackals rolled out the alt-rock Freakshow with their latest single, which has made its way from the 90s to our epoch, which still thrives upon the exploitation of punching down the most disenfranchised. Decades have passed, we still haven’t learned our lesson, and Smiling Jackals’ social dissection is just as cutting as the day it was penned. Sounding like it came out of Chris Cornell’s studio, the atmospheric intensity of the grungy retaliation to televised misery drags you in by the scruff of your neck, uses the distortion to make you stand unguarded against the thematic core of the track, instilling you with deep shame you’ve ever felt schadenfreude every time you declare something as cringe on TikTok while you pretend that humiliation is cultural execution. With a sense of visceral volition that stands up against The Holy Bible era of The Manics, Smiling Jackals are one of the only bands on this side of the millennium strong enough to carry us through the inertia of modernity. After more than a decade apart, they’re back in the same place, same room, same raw energy. Older. Louder. Sharper. Their third self-released single on their label, Smalltimeville Records, shows no signs […] The post Smiling Jackals flipped the mirror on our schadenfreude in Freakshow appeared first on A&R Factory.

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Smiling Jackals rolled out the alt-rock Freakshow with their latest single, which has made its way from the 90s to our epoch, which still thrives upon the exploitation of punching down the most disenfranchised. Decades have passed, we still haven’t learned our lesson, and Smiling Jackals’ social dissection is just as cutting as the day it was penned. Sounding like it came out of Chris Cornell’s studio, the atmospheric intensity of the grungy retaliation to televised misery drags you in by the scruff of your neck, uses the distortion to make you stand unguarded against the thematic core of the track, instilling you with deep shame you’ve ever felt schadenfreude every time you declare something as cringe on TikTok while you pretend that humiliation is cultural execution. With a sense of visceral volition that stands up against The Holy Bible era of The Manics, Smiling Jackals are one of the only bands on this side of the millennium strong enough to carry us through the inertia of modernity. After more than a decade apart, they’re back in the same place, same room, same raw energy. Older. Louder. Sharper. Their third self-released single on their label, Smalltimeville Records, shows no signs […]

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