Jools – Violent Delights
Hassle Records
9,0/10,0
Brief:
To experience Jools in their most chaotic and unpredictable full flight is, the band were once told, to not know whether you are about to be kicked in the face or kissed on the cheek. Even that, however, feels like an understatement.
The Leicester punk collective’s debut album, Violent Delights is a concept album, telling the individual an anthology of stories that meanders through themes of grief, rage, desire and identity. There are stories of the toxicity of addiction, and growing up around religion; stories of overwhelming obsession, isolating abandonment, and empowering anthems of identity, and stark laments about sexual violence. They are each lived experiences, laid bare, reclaimed with every syllable whether dripping in spite or swagger, anger or anxiety.
At any moment the Jools experience, on stage and on record, can turn on a sixpence from that of unbridled rage at the world to a celebration of the beauty that can still be found hidden in its murky corners.
The punk rock of Jools is at once visceral and violent, cathartic and confrontational, and at the next exultant and exhilarating. Jools is duality by design, where contradiction is empowerment harnessed as a force for progress, sonically and societally.
[Edited Press Release]
Tracklist:
- The Pleasures
- Limerence
- Cardinal
- Mother Monica
- Knee Injury
- 97%
- Guts
- Live Deliciously
- Dunoon
- Violent Delights
Main Focus Tracks:
- Limerence
- 97%
Other Recommended Tracks:
- Mother Monica
- Guts
- Live Deliciously
Line-Up:
Kate Price – vocals
Mitch Gordon – vocals
Chris Johnston – guitar
Callum Connachie – guitar
Joe Dodd – bass
Chelsea Wrones – drums
Comments:
Violent Delights, the latest album from Jools, is a work of rare soulfulness, seamlessly blending anger and melody. Its richly layered details reward repeated listening, each time revealing new emotional and sonic nuances.
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Selected Discography:
Violent Delights – 2025
Photo Credit: Matt Chapman