Sonic Boomerang Records
2007
What Did You Do During The War, Daddy?
About This Album
Following the dissolution of the Hurricane Lamps in 2004, singer/songwriter Eric Tischler quickly formed the Jet Age and released a fairly standard-issue power pop record called Breathless that was more pleasant than exciting. With their follow-up, a slightly rejiggered lineup of the Jet Age (now featuring ex Hurricane Lamps bandmate Greg Barrett as full-time bassist) has released a far more ambitious and musically successful album that dwarfs Tischler's previous work in both reach and grasp. In interviews surrounding the album's release, Tischler explained that in his early writing sessions, he wrote three songs in widely divergent musical styles: the instant-classic three-and-a-half minute manic pop thrill of "If I Had You Then, I'd Still Want You Now," a much darker song called "False Idols" with echoes of Love's more apocalyptic elegies for the death of hippie ideals, and a throwback to the jagged guitars and deadpan cool of mid-'90s indie rock called "Shake." Despairing at making the three songs logically fit on the same album, Tischler remembered a quote from his musical hero Pete Townshend, who claimed that songwriting always came easier if he had a brief to write to.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8)

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