In rock’s finest tradition, Jackie Alan Denise has a sound like taking a beating and asking for seconds. It’s a compulsive, flanging, tastefully undertuned series of licks and hooks made to keep the feet at your local college/dive bar tapping to exhaustion. JAD provides an early showcase of Chubanai Records’ core artists-BRUT’s Jacob Herring and B. Morgan Waters, songwriter Alana Kansaku Sarmiento-along with drummer Danny Burgan.
JAD doesn’t reinvent the American soundscape. But they do answer, once and for all, the question of what happens when two guys working at an Italian restaurant meet a woman at a Portland gay bar. Jackie Alan Denise’s first and only release was 2012’s Homewreckers.Go ahead. Give ‘er a listen.