ARTIST: Justice of the Unicorns
TITLE: Angels with Uzis
LABEL: Little Lamb
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 196kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 34m total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-03-11
RIP DATE: 2008-02-19
Track List
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1. Intro: Angels Descend 1:53
2. Malibu is High End 2:22
3. Wild Tiger 3:15
4. Jesus Had a Sweet Girlfriend 2:28
5. The Dragons Claw: Chapter I 3:24
6. Mc Carren Pool 3:06
7. Fried Rice 3:10
8. Fake Gold 2:23
9. Sleeping Late in the Summer 3:19
Time
10. The King of the Trailer Park 2:52
11. Pterodactyl Sun 2:47
12. Mascara 2:25
13. Outro: Angels Ascend 1:19
Release Notes:
Yesterday, I received my bi-monthly batch of promos. While sorting through the
records an album named Angels with Uzis by the band Justice of the Unicorns
caught my eye. If the image on your right is a bit too small let me take the
liberty of describing what's going on with the album's cover. Above a burning
skyline is what I can only assume to be a six year olds interpretation of
angels, complete with triangle breasts and polka dotted lighting bolt wings.
Floating beside their hands are rainbow-colored guns shooting out small red
hearts in place of bullets. This unique drawing, an obvious comment on our
western society's wanton use of religion as the justification for violence as
instilled in and embodied by our children, speaks to the record's theme as a
whole. The objective of this truly magnificent protest album is to mobilize
herds of apathetic, well dressed, youngsters in order to finally realize the
potential of our post-modern society. And who better to champion the movement
than indie rockers sounding like a cross between the lethargic and uppity side
of an art school dropout after one too many bong hits?
I'll admit I made up the stuff about the revolution. It's just that I seriously
have no idea what is going on with this record. The album opens to the sound of
an audience's cheerful laughter and a delightful circus-like organ that is
rudely interrupted by repeated gunfire and screaming. I mean, really, what the
fuck man? The music itself has that cute folk feeling that comes with whiny
voices singing endearingly simplistic/juvenile lyrics, but just remains really,
really, weird. For example, Angels with Uzis houses such great lines as, ôJesus
had a girlfriend / To wash his robes for him / But he got too fat,ö and has an
entire song devoted to chasing a fictional dragon.
While I am aware that, or at least I suppose that, Justice of the Unicorns don't
take themselves too seriously, I can't quite kick the feeling of the whole album
being a giant inside joke that I don't get. Maybe I'm not high enough. But with
the success of the Juno soundtrack it seems that kids these days love this
stuff. Go figure.