Mean Jeans – Tight New Dimesion

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Tight New Dimension - Fat Wreck Chords

A short while ago I had the privilege of reviewing Mean Jeans first release for Fat Wreck Chords and I was blown away, five star reviews are a rare thing but the Nite Vision EP deserved it as it was one of best slices of punk rock I’ve heard this year. A great single is one thing, but can they follow it up with a whole album that delivers the same relentless energy? the short answer is yes, but that wouldn’t be much of a review.

This is Mean Jeans third album and their first album for Fat Wreck Chords, it opens with the high energy Long Dumb Road and you couldn’t want a better metaphor for this band, except possibly to call it short dumb road as this is twelve brief bursts of party themed punk rock. The majority of the songs on Tight new Dimension are under two minutes in length and the only fault I can think of is that it’s on the short side, the twelve songs are done and dusted in about twenty five minutes.

You can hear the ghosts of The Ramones on the album but this isn’t just a pale reproduction, Mean Jeans have taken all that was great about da brudders, distilled it and added their own idiosyncrasies into the mix. The whole album delivers short sharp shots of punk rock which are perfectly produced and unbelievably consistent.

Don’t expect deep political insight or informed opinions on any of the songs on Tight New Dimension, this is the soundtrack to beer drinking, tequila slammers and zero fucks being given about the consequences. It’s fast, dumb and catchy as hell, if you bottled this, it would be 80% proof and come with a health warning that you’d ignore. I honestly can’t remember the last time an album impressed me this much, I may well have found my new favourite band.