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Mystery Jets - Twenty One
| Drownedinsound | | The story of Twenty One is a tale you’ll hear spun countless times over the next fortnight or so, as press focus comes to fall on Mystery Jets. You may be familiar with it already, in fact, if you’d read the interviews carried in the free London dailies or in the music ‘press’; or even online, perhaps in the shape of this interview DrownedinSound ran with the band last week. The story of Twenty One runs thus, then – a young quartet of musicians plug away for years in a practice space on Eel Pie Island, West London, under the tutelage of one Henry Harrison. Father of lead vocalist, guitar and keys player Blaine, Harrison oversees the musical development of the band, feeding them up with early Pink Floyd, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and “loads of prog stuff” while performing and writing with the act on their first forays around the local live circuit....full text |
| | Musicomh | | The pop/prog weirdness, charming songwriting, and unexpected slow burn of Mystery Jets' debut album, 2006's Making Dens, caused enough of a stir to put a bit of pressure on the next steps of the London quintet, and invites the inescapable "difficult second album" cliché to be placed on their collective shoulders. Having toured for almost two years, and having formed an unforeseen relationship with an electronic DJ legend, Mystery Jets return with their second album, Twenty One....full text |
| | Guardian | | Did he jump or was he pushed? Whatever the reason, Blaine Harrison's father Henry is no longer a bona-fide member of the Mystery Jets (although he still crops up in the writing credits on a handful of songs). And it can't be just coincidence that the band now sound as fizzy as lemon sherbet. This is a vividly youthful album, packed with acid-sharp lyrics and neon-bold choruses, playful vocal harmonies and strikingly confident pop sounds. Gone are the prog-rock influences of their debut, Making Dens, replaced by a sometimes hilarious display of 1980s pomp-worship....full text |
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